(Leica D-Lux 5) With a dollop of nostalgia of what made the British-Hong Kong tick, Hong Kong seems to be losing the impetus to move forward. People are increasingly backward-looking, and therefore are turning inward-looking to the same measure. The Hong Kong spirits of can-do, pragmatism and hardworking are giving way to hidebound beliefs and uptight feelings about one another over almost every social and political issue. As the saying goes, every why has a wherefore. Such mutual mistrust cannot be brewed if the government has not second-guessed and now kowtows to the political taste of the north, which only helps the society to further polarise and grind to a halt.