Banyan: Suffragette city

摘要

The struggle for democracy in Hong Kong is not like the struggle elsewhere. One venerable warrior takes holy communion alongside the territory's chief executive before spending the rest of the day lambasting him. Another, a bluestocking barrister, struggles to pump her fist in time to the campaign music, after listening to Mozart at home. A former high official turned freedom fighter, dubbed "Hong Kong's conscience", famously peeled off from a march to pop into the hairdressers. Democrats and their "pro-Beijing" adversaries alike send their sons to Ampleforth, Winchester or other snooty British schools.