October 2025 – A Communist in Hong Kong
2 posts published by Simon Elmer during October 2025| A Communist in Hong Kong
2 posts published by Simon Elmer during October 2025| A Communist in Hong Kong
While in London this summer I met two young filmmakers during a night out in Soho. She was from the Ukraine; he, I think, from Italy, and we discussed cinema and our favourite films, mine being lar…| A Communist in Hong Kong
The toxic masculinity Of rutting stags in Richmond Park Is not an accusation That could be levelled at this hart Who whiles away these autumn days (My fallen antlers nests for birds) Reading about English hinds Being mounted by foreign herds. — September 2025 • • • • • Richmond Park is a royal park … Continue reading Rutting Season| A Communist in Hong Kong
Welcome aboard South Western Railway’s Service to Dorking. Calling at Earlsfield, Wimbledon, Raynes Park, Worcester Park, Stoneleigh, Ewell West, Epsom, Ashtead, Leatherhead, Boxhill & Westhumble, And Dorking. Inside my head I count the seconds Before the voice begins again. Please ensure you have a valid ticket. Anyone without a valid ticket Or payment method, will … Continue reading England| A Communist in Hong Kong
The beast we bred in Brussels has broken out of prison And squats today on Europa’s breast. It was not made To keep us safe from harm but locked in indecision. And now he crawls the unlit kerbs of every street at night, Preying on the victims they’ve assigned for sacrifice, And every park and … Continue reading God is Greater| A Communist in Hong Kong
If it were announced to you that the enemy had invaded your cities, your castles and your lands; had ravished your wives and your daughters, and profaned your temples, which among you would not fly to arms? — St. Bernard of Clairvaux, sermon for the Second Crusade preached at Vézelay in 1146 (Joseph-François Michaud’s Histoire … Continue reading The Cathedral in Ruins| A Communist in Hong Kong
1. The Death of Art The death of art has been proclaimed for at least a century, most loudly, perhaps, by Dada during the Great War in Europe; but its clarion call has been sounded with diminishing ferocity over the last few decades. Initially, under the neoliberal revolution and fiat economies of the 1980s, the … Continue reading Culture Wars: The Piper and the Archer| A Communist in Hong Kong
Culture Wars: Art, Politics and Capitalism by Simon Elmer Hardback: £45.00 Paperback: £25.00 Look Inside Description Written between 2016 and 2024, four years either side of lockdown, the articles collected in this volume have the benefit of straddling this watershed in Western capitalism, and of documenting, from the battlefields of the culture wars … Continue reading Culture Wars: Art, Politics and Capitalism| A Communist in Hong Kong
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…| A Communist in Hong Kong
Research and writings on the Great Reset| A Communist in Hong Kong
4 posts published by Simon Elmer during June 2025| A Communist in Hong Kong
If it were announced to you that the enemy had invaded your cities, your castles, your lands; had ravished your wives and your daughters and profaned your temples — who among you would not fly to a…| A Communist in Hong Kong
In the upper reaches of Tiger Leaping Gorge, Where the rapids of Jinsha River cut their way Between mountains of unmelting snow In a torrent of gold water and silver spray, And the shadowed cliffs …| A Communist in Hong Kong
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 reckonin…| A Communist in Hong Kong
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 w…| A Communist in Hong Kong
The Housing Crisis: Finance, Legislation, Policy, Resistance by Simon Elmer Hardback: £35.00 Paperback: £20.00 Look Inside Description First published between 2015 and 2019 on the web…| A Communist in Hong Kong
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An autumn leaf Falls from a tree To the moss floor Of the forest Red stars glinting In a green sky Heap of colour Which two women Wielding twig brooms Will sweep away. — Kyoto, December 2024 • • • …| A Communist in Hong Kong
‘We would have brought architecture back to its proper calling, as the art of settlement, in which people build their shelters side by side, and at the same time create the public spaces that are t…| A Communist in Hong Kong
There’s the hill on which, fifty years past, I crashed my bike, swerving — said the driver Who put us both in the back of his car — Towards the road. Towards the trees! — I lied, Nursing my grazed …| A Communist in Hong Kong
Sitting in a Hong Kong cemetery Reading to the dead Chinese poetry In translation by an American Who calls petrol ‘gas’, trainers ‘sneakers’, And motorways ‘highways’ — to Hell or Heaven? Alas, Ame…| A Communist in Hong Kong
The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? — December 2024 by Simon Elmer Paperback: £15.00 Look Inside Description The narrative of ‘Stop the Boats’ has successf…| A Communist in Hong Kong
Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History — November 2024 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £35.00 Paperback: £17.50 Look Inside Description Written between 2016 and 2019, before t…| A Communist in Hong Kong
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden 1. What is a Jew? ‘Their barbaric acts are acts of evil. There are not two sides to …| A Communist in Hong Kong
