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Will Higginbotham

Will Higginbotham is a writer and journalist from Melbourne Australia. He has worked for the BBC’s Radio 4 and as a history research assistant at Oxford University. He holds a BA (Hons) from the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne.

Will Higginbotham reviews 'City on Fire: The fight for Hong Kong' by Antony Dapiran

August 2020, no. 423 27 July 2020
It began with a request to overturn a controversial bill that would have allowed people to be extradited to mainland China. According to the bill’s many detractors, this was but the latest example of the erosion of Hong Kong’s freedoms. By June 2019, millions of Hong Kong’s residents had taken to the streets. August saw sit-ins at Hong Kong’s International Airport, and by October clashes b ... (read more)