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“I have worked for 36 years now in govt. and I have never seen a City with these complexities, and with so little authority vested in the Director because of the Coastal Plan. It’s a real outlier.”

An industry insider told me: "There was a big belief in govt that if you pulled the planning lever, everything would flow, but you can't just pull one lever and expect everything to work," while another said: "Labour has got fixated thinking planning is the answer to all."

Influenced by that teaching, James Madison wrote in the 1820s about the separation of church and state: “I have no doubt that every new example will succeed … in shewing that Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”

“This morning I, a U.S. citizen, woke up to the news that an arrest warrant & a HKD $1 million bounty have been placed on my head by the Hong Kong govt. for exercising my freedoms in my own country,” Siu posted on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.

“There are some great parts about the AI EO, but as the govt implements it, it will be important not to slow down innovation by smaller companies/research teams,” Mr. Altman said on X.