Loyal readers, Hong Wrong will now be on a 2-month hiatus for the summer. Thank you all for reading my blog blather over the past year. This place was a lonely echo chamber until I wrote about that bastard rubber duck – since then, we’ve averaged 50,000 visitors per month.

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The blog will return in September with more politics, art, satire, history and photography. Until then, you can browse all 423 Hong Wrong posts on the new Mega-Index, including political coverage, photos of HK’s abandoned villages and entries from Sub-Standard.

I’ll be heading to the US, Iran and Turkey tomorrow – you can follow my travels on my sister blog, globalcitizen.co.uk

Cheers, Tom.