In the upper reaches of Tiger Leaping Gorge, Where the rapids of Jinsha River cut their way xxxxBetween mountains of unmelting snow In a torrent of gold water and silver spray, xxxxAnd the shadowed cliffs on either side Ascend to sunlit peaks five-thousand metres high — Chinese tourists, beneath masks and white umbrellas, Queue patiently … Continue reading Crossing the Jinsha River
Author: Simon Elmer
Replacement Immigration. Part Two: The Colonisation of the UK
4. Debunking Reality The management of the response to the Southport murders I looked at in Part One of this article, largely by the same political organisations and media companies that turned the vote of 20 percent of the UK electorate into the extremist government of Keir Starmer, is not the only way in which … Continue reading Replacement Immigration. Part Two: The Colonisation of the UK
Replacement Immigration. Part One: A Two-Tier State
1. An Extremist, Minority Government In Part Two of The Road to Wigan Pier, first published in 1937, George Orwell wrote at length about the threat of fascism in England. He was out in his reckoning about when it would arrive, and England today is a very different place to what it was then; but … Continue reading Replacement Immigration. Part One: A Two-Tier State
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Her eyes were the empty buds of a beech tree in the autumn, Her lips the honeyed sapwood beneath the curled bark of her skin, The dark down on her forearms were the stripes on a tiger’s coat, Her wrists the burnished tree bole from whose stump white flowers blossom, And her hands, which picked … Continue reading Tiger Leaping Gorge
The Circus
Ants on the locust tree assume a great-nation swagger xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx— Mao Zedong, 1963 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1 On this nameless junction, where Fuzhou Road Crosses Jiangxi Road on its way to the Bund, For a hundred years the British Concession In the Far East — Shanghai’s City of London; And where, today, a red light means ‘stop’ But … Continue reading The Circus
Case Studies in Estate Regeneration
My old friend and sometime adversary, the architect Patrik Schumacher, once declared that the ‘unique and exclusive concern of architects’ is what he described as the first few millimetres of a building.[1] By this he meant a building’s form, its exterior and interior surfaces, the sculptured and engineered façade or envelope behind which whatever goes … Continue reading Case Studies in Estate Regeneration
Case Studies in Estate Regeneration: Demolition, Privatisation and Social Cleansing
Case Studies in Estate Regeneration: Demolition, Privatisation and Social Cleansing by Simon Elmer Hardback: £40.00 Paperback: £25.00 Look Inside Description Created in its current form in 1997 by the Labour government of Tony Blair and formalised in 2016 as a national programme by the Conservative government of David Cameron, estate regeneration is the … Continue reading Case Studies in Estate Regeneration: Demolition, Privatisation and Social Cleansing
Black Swan
xxxxxxxxxx1 She struts between the tables Of the tiny dining room Like a boxer who’s defeated His opponent in the ring Like a prima ballerina Before the corps de ballet Like a foreman watching workers Across the factory floor. xxxxxxxxxx2 She is always on her feet I have never seen her seated Every evening of … Continue reading Black Swan
The Market Place
If someone would poke out the eyes of the hawks we sparrows could dance wherever we please! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx— Han-Shan The Filipino mother whose children Live with their father in the Philippines, Walks the Chinese child through Hong Kong’s streets, The bag of her employer’s dirty laundry Carried in one hand, in the other The hand … Continue reading The Market Place
This Must Be the Place
My native English, now I must forgo — William Shakespeare For home is wherever you are, my love, And where you are is where I want to be, Not in that Kingdom or this Republic, Even here, on the far side of the world To the land from which you and I were made, On … Continue reading This Must Be the Place
A Communist in Hong Kong 