Low Bar

British values are once more on flamboyant display in Hong Kong, where a barrister of the master race has fought for his personal freedom to prosecute pro-democracy troublemakers. David Perry went to court himself in order to take the case, after the Hong Kong bar association took the fiendishly slanted view that no attempt had been made to hire local lawyers. Since the UK has been enthusiastic about democracy in Hong Kong ever since the colony was handed back to the Heathen Chinee, various establishment pillars on the mainland are huffing and puffing about the continued involvement in Hong Kong courts of judges and lawyers from the master race. On the one hand, such involvement may bring British law, and its continuing blithe irrelevance to Her Majesty's Government and its chums, into some sort of disrepute. On the other hand, to deprive Hong Kong of this last remnant of Britishness might destroy for all time any chance of self-improvement for the natives.