Sixty years ago this weekend, The Monkees introduced themselves to the world with their eponymous sitcom. Music fans were ...

Is the bubble too big to pop?

It was when he started swinging the second microphone that I started to worry. It was a fairly confined space. The first mic had already gone flying off its lead and smashed against the wall.

Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho are three prominent Hong Kong activists who led the group behind the city’s massive annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The ...