Analects - Emil Rem

For Whom the bells Toll

by Emil Rem | Jan 15, 2026 | Analects

On 8 December 2025, Lai Chee-ying, also known as Jimmy Lai, spent his seventy-eighth birthday in solitary confinement, a guest of the People’s Republic of China. At the age of twelve, Lai entered Hong Kong as a stowaway from Canton. There, he had once been the scion...

Failure ? Who me ?

by Emil Rem | Jan 8, 2026 | Analects

Sir Anthony Hopkins, an actor from Port Talbot, Wales—a town boasting a population of just 31,550—has been honoured with two Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime...

Catch A Falling Star

by Emil Rem | Jan 1, 2026 | Analects

I have two favourite films. Yesterday, I took the afternoon off to watch Casablanca. It is December 1941. The Germans have overrun Europe. Refugees flood Casablanca, desperate to obtain passes for neutral Portugal, and from there to America. Casablanca is under the...

Junkanoo on Bay Street

by Emil Rem | Dec 25, 2025 | Analects

“Rapa, poom, poom, poom.” “Rapa, poom, poom, poom.” We can hear the sousaphones pumping from ten blocks away, off Frederick Street, Nassau. It’s Junkanoo time in The Bahamas. “Hurry up, kids — and Laura. We’ll be late.” The taxi drops the four of us at the corner of...

Love You Forever

by Emil Rem | Dec 18, 2025 | Analects

When my kids were kids, our favourite time of day was reading to them at bedtime. Coming from England, I inundated them with The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and The Happy Prince. As they grew older, we turned to Harry Potter....

One Night in Bangkok

by Emil Rem | Dec 11, 2025 | Analects

My mum—“She Who Must Be Obeyed”—divorced when I was five and took me with her to England. My dad remained in Tanzania, working for East African Airways. Every school break, Dad sent me free tickets home. But for my seventeenth birthday, he outdid himself:...