Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel

Who makes these hateful websites? For the love of god at least provide a "printer friendly" version. It's like reading a roll of toilet paper that randomly jerks and spins. You're supposed to be more convenient than a paper magazine!

I do recommend the radio programme broadcast on BBC radio 4 (still up on iPlayer).

This is the kind of story that raises far more questions than it answers. There is way too much murkiness and innuendo to discern fact from speculation, opinion and fiction.

I mean was the whole thing a setup to frame Bo? Because it seems right from the beginning he had tremendous support and clout to get away with what he did, you just can't run a city the way you want and take down powerful interests without top level support. He was part of the 25 member party politburo all the way through and minister of commerce. So this is one of the top guys in China. At the end it looks more like political intrigue than something personal.

There's also the podcast with the same name for those who'd rather listen to that than to read this ... presentation of it.

I didn't expect to wake up and read a John Le Carre novel first thing in the morning.

How interesting that the author is named 'Carrie Gracie', solely for the Carre vs. Carrie name reference.

Life imitates art.

Perhaps this is just gratuitous bike-shedding, but somewhere between the font [1], the line-height, the general layout (narrow columns shifting about, sometimes transparently on top of imagery), I found this article quite unpleasant to read. Given they have clearly made an effort with the layout and appearance of these long-form pieces, this surely must be a rather disappointing result.

[1] Basically the default sans-serif, depending on your operating system: "Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif". If you turn this off, you get PT Serif, which feels considerably easier on the eye, frankly.