Of course, his fellow Skull and Bones man, Mr Bush, can hardly claim that he was born on the wrong side of the tracks.

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The scandal lets her shed her skin: among other things, she can identify as a Latina from the wrong side of the tracks, instead of as a private-school-educated white girl.

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Kowloon has often been looked at as the other Hong Kong, the one that is on the wrong side of the proverbial tracks (or harbour in this case).

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