Word: knighthoods
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When you got down, everything got crazy quickly. The Knighthood came through almost immediately. I had nothing to do with that...
...that? Well I didn't really think I was the right material for a Knighthood, and it had never been something that I had any ambition to have. But I found in later years that, if you're philosophical about it, it really can be quite useful in a way - useful for getting support for other activities...
...later letters are those of an important public figure, dining with the King and earning a knighthood with an impassioned defense of Britain's role in the Boer War at a time when world opinion was against it, not least due to the British Army's use of scorched earth tactics. His final years were marked by tragedy - he lost his brother Innes and his son Kingsley to World War I - and by controversy, as he became Britain's most famous defender of spiritualism, convinced of our ability to communicate with the dead through a medium. (Among those he contacted...
...career choice for Hong Kongers with plenty of brains but little money. A devout Catholic (like a surprising number of key people in Hong Kong), Tsang has his roots deep in the city. Because of his background as an official in the British administration, for which he received a knighthood, Hong Kong's leftist camp has never fully trusted Tsang as a Beijing loyalist. Indeed, the conventional wisdom is that China's leaders are still feeling him out. But among his own people, that doesn't necessarily hurt Tsang. "They see him as someone who is not a partisan...
...against him? The business lobby wanted to see one of their own become Chief Executive. Hong Kong's leftists mistrust Tsang as a colonial Anglophile (the knighthood, the British boarding schools his two sons attend). And the democrats find Tsang too conservative. In its eagerness to replace Tung, Beijing may have underestimated the contentiousness of Hong Kong party politics. If Tsang can't keep the territory's powerful factions under control, he could find it difficult to get anything done...