This commission is not paid by the body corporate and does not come out of the levies paid by lot owners. Rather, it is a commission paid by each lot owner of the apartments that the onsite letting agent manages as real estate agent.

At least one million of Guizhou’s then 16 million people are believed to have died during the early 1960s. Many of the deaths occurred in Zunyi and neighbouring Jinsha county, the result of violent appropriation of grain by officials.

At any one time, 70% of smokers would like to be able to quit but cannot do so primarily because of the extraordinary addictivity of nicotine.

That was a bally foolish thing to do, old chap!