Paris 2015

Last Saturday morning(14th November HK time), I heard the horrible news about the events in Paris. This is a city that's very close to my heart. I have been there many times, including a 3 month stint in 1998. During that time I have been to Saint Denis, on one occasion but did not go into the stadium.

The rest of the attacks took place in the 11th arrondisment, which I am not very familiar with, I do recollect visiting the Place de la Nation, where the Boulevard Voltaire suicide bombing took place.

And I haven't previously heard of the theatre Bataclan and the Eagles of Death Metal who were performing that dreadful night.  It's a sad thing that I heard about the theatre and the band due to this horrible event.

I later found that Eagles of Death Metal recorded a death metal cover of one of my favourite songs - 'Save a prayer' by Duran Duran.  Here is a live recorded clip of this cover with the Duran Duran boys.  Its difficult to believe that a few weeks after appearing on Chris Evan's show, they would witness death and destruction, where one of their entourage was a victim.

To all the victims, rest in peace.

Corbyn and Bin Laden's death

Jeremy Corbyn has said that the assasination of Bin Laden was a tragedy. It was..for islamists and their self hating leftwing friends. He suggests that OBL should have been brought to trial. What a load of nonsense. OBL was not a common criminal and 9/11 was not a crime, it was an act of war.  The west treated it as war. The left should get over this. OBL's death brought closure for the victim's families and that is the end of the matter as I see it.