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Should Singaporeans Be Loving It in LHL’s Dynastic Totalitarian Dictatorship?

Some years ago a British journalist called John Kampfner wrote a rather silly book called Freedom for Sale. Its thesis […]

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Prosecuting Violet Netto for Helping Prepare a Last-Ditch Appeal for Nagaenthran Only Serves To Emphasize LHL’s Control Over Judiciary, AG and Everything Else That Matters in Singapore

A few days ago the State Times published a report saying that Violet Netto was under investigation by the police […]

The Truly Despicable and Abhorrent Execution of a Poor Mentally Disabled Man for a Non-Violent Crime Exposes the Totalitarian Nature of Singapore’s One-Party Dictatorship

The execution on Wednesday 27 April of mentally disabled Nagaenthran, for the non-violent crime of drug smuggling, has given Singapore […]

A Few Questions for the Health Minister

Dear Minister Ong Firstly my commiserations on missing out on becoming the interim seat-warmer in waiting (at least until your […]

Move Over Putin’s Russia! Lee Hsien Loong’s Singapore Should Be the King of the Economist’s Crony Capitalism Index

A few days ago the Economist updated its Crony Capitalism Index, for the first time since the newspaper brought it […]

My Analysis of Budget 2022

Hi everyone I’m speaking to you today to give you my take on Budget 2022. I’ve written about the fake […]

PAP Are Too Fond of Expiry Dates To Keep Singaporeans in Subjection. Instead Let’s Put An Expiry Date on PM Lee and His Government

Amid the tragedy of Russia’s aggression against its weaker neighbour and the charade that is Budget 2022, Singaporeans can get […]

My Speech Refuting LHL’s Claims of High Moral Principles Underlying His Hypocritical Attempt to Overturn the Will of the People Just As Was Done to JBJ

Hi everyone I know that many of you are expecting me to be talking about Budget 2022, which plagiarizes […]

LHL Uses His Coercive Control of Parliament and the AG to Get Rid of Opposition He Doesn’t Like to Replace Them with People Like Him Just As His Dad Did With JBJ

I want today to talk about the extraordinary saga that is taking place with regard to the Committee of Privileges […]

As PAP Leaders Look Forward to Another Year of Outsize Earnings and Prepare to Raise Taxes on the Poorest, More Singaporean Families Go To Bed Hungry

PM Lee has said he expects the economy to grow by 3-5% this year but that will still only make […]

A List of the 10 Richest Politicians in Singapore Is Undoubtedly Fake News But Still Grossly Underestimates LHL’s (and His Wife’s) Personal Wealth

Recently my attention was drawn to a list published by a South African news site which purports to show Singapore’s […]

Reimbursement of Innocent Bank Scam Victims Must Be Made Mandatory

The recent massive phishing scam at OCBC has highlighted Singaporeans’ inadequate protection against banking fraud. After pressure from MAS, OCBC […]

Indranee Rajah Misleads Parliament by Falsely Claiming Singaporeans Will Be Protected from the GST Hike for 5 Years. Should She Be Referred to the Committee of Privileges?

In his New Year Message PM Lee Hsien Loong said that “the Government will have to start moving on the […]

Singaporeans Refused To Pay for PAP Propaganda So LHL Will Now Use Your Taxes To Corruptly Keep His Government in Office

Singaporeans have been forced for decades to pay for the privilege of being forced to consume PAP fake news, disinformation […]

Shanmugam: A Whiter Shade of Hypocrisy.

Recently Senior Minister Shanmugam has been sneering at the current silence of activists who supported Amos Yee back in 2015. […]

We Spend More Than Indonesia on Defence. Why Then Is the PAP Government Acquiescing in What Appears To Be an Indonesian Shakedown?

Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Keng Swee introduced NS ostensibly as a means of nation building and deterring potential aggressors […]

As More Singaporeans Go Hungry, PM’s Wife Offers Free Mouthwash

In my last blog I satirized the fact that, instead of regular cash dividends from Singapore’s massive and secret pile […]

SoftBank Just Announced It Lost US$54 billion on its Chinese Investments. How Much Has Temasek Under Ho Ching Lost?

On Monday SoftBank, the Japanese technology investor, announced that its net asset value had fallen by the equivalent of US$54 […]

Unlike Raesah Khan MP, J B Jeyaretnam MP never lied or committed perjury.

In the wake of Workers Party MP Raesah Khan’s admission that she lied to Parliament and fabricated her story about […]

The PAP Silences All Those Who Call Out Institutional Racism by Prosecuting Them Instead

A couple of days ago state media announced that Subhas Nair, perhaps better known as the brother of Preetipls, was […]

Bloomberg’s New Economy Forum Treats Singaporeans as Second Class, Is Corrupt Electioneering for LHL and the PAP and Shows FICA Is an Unequal and Unconstitutional Law

Recently I tweeted about the case of the former Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurtz. He has been forced to step down […]

The No-Growth Economy and the Bankruptcy of the PAP Economic Model

On Thursday 14 October The States Times published a synopsis of the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s (MTI) release of […]

Shanmugam Either Doesn’t Know or Deliberately Misrepresents the Meaning of Rule of Law

By ordering nine individuals to apologise and publish a correction after they posted a Mothership article that had misleadingly edited […]

FICA Makes Singapore a Laughing Stock and Firmly Puts Us in the North Korea and Belarus Camp

In 2008 when he founded the Reform Party, JBJ famously asked the question whether the citizens of Singapore enjoyed any […]

J B Jeyaretnam Project Limited is Live!

The Directors are pleased to announce that the J B Jeyaretnam Project Ltd was successfully incorporated with ACRA on 10 […]

It’s Back to the 1970s as Lee Hsien Loong Demonstrates Nothing Has Changed

The last week has brought a distinct feeling of deja vu. Firstly, we had the decision to close Yale-NUS, which […]

Will PM Lee Finally Come Clean at NDR 2021 and Admit His Government’s Policies for 40 Years Have Been a Failure?

We have been given a preview of LHL’s National Day Rally speech when Lawrence Wong gave an interview to the […]

Why Is Temasek So Massively Overexposed to Chinese Regulatory and Market Risk?

The last few days have seen a savage sell-off in Chinese tech stocks that has wiped hundreds of billions of […]

Why the Greedy Gullibility of Temasek’s General Counsel Should Ring Alarm Bells

Yesterday I read the astonishing news that Temasek’s General Counsel, Pek Siok Lan, had apparently blown $5.5 m in a […]

Racist Poly Lecturer Only Expressed LKY’s Views on Racial Intermarriage

Why do I feel that the Government’s condemnation of the Ngee Ann Polytechnic lecturer for his racist tirade against a […]

Farce of Twelve Cupcakes Prosecution Sends a Clear Message from MOM: Crime Pays But Protecting Singapore Workers Doesn’t

Today I read that the founder of Twelve Cupcakes, Daniel Ong, had been fined $65,000 for breaching employment laws for […]

Lee Hsien Loong Wants Foreign Interference in SIngapore Politics As Long As It Helps To Keep Him in Power

I was amused but not surprised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s hypocritical statement yesterday about the co-hosting by the […]

Orwell’s 1984 Is Alive and Well in Lee Hsien Loong’s Singapore

William Gibson, the iconic American science fiction writer famously described Singapore in 1993 as “Disneyland with the Death Penalty” in […]

As Singapore Heads Into Another Lockdown, the Government’s Failure To Provide Enough Stimulus Is Hurting Our Citizens

In my analysis of Budget 2021, I criticised Heng Swee Keat’s failure to provide enough stimulus and warned that SIngaporeans […]

Shanmugam Says “Singapore Will Fail If Racism and Xenophobia Take Root” Directly Contradicting LKY’s Theory That Racial Superiority Was the Main Reason for Singapore’s Success

Singapore’s leaders were absolutely right to condemn the racist attack against an Indian Singaporean last week. LHL said on […]

The Succession Problem Is One of LHL’s Own Making and Suits Him Just Fine

Six days ago I wrote a blog about Heng Swee Keat’s decision to remove himself from the succession to LHL […]

PAP in Disarray? Much More Likely That LHL Is Moving the Pieces Around the Chessboard To Ensure His Son Is There To Succeed Him When He Finally Retires

Was anyone really surprised by the news that my old Cambridge contemporary, Heng Swee Keat, is stepping down from leadership […]

“Meritocracy” Triumphs Yet Again as Josephine Teo’s Husband Is Snapped Up by Another GLC

State media mouthpiece TODAY announced on Monday that Josephine Teo’s husband, Teo Eng Cheong, had been appointed as the head […]

The Pandemic Exposes the Fallacious and Mendacious Reasoning Behind the PAP’s Foreign Worker Policy

In a statement on 16 March 2021 Ministry of Manpower (MOM) revealed that total employment dropped by 166,000 in 2020. […]

Dear British People, Don’t Be Fooled Into Trading Civil Liberties for an Illusion of Prosperity

Dear British People Your Government is rushing through its new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 which imposes new […]

While the US Economy Is Expected To Grow Twice as Fast as Expected, Singapore’s Economy Is Held Back by PAP’s Absurd Fixation on Austerity

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has just forecast that the American economy will expand by up to […]

Heng’s Desperate Attempts To Deceive Singaporeans End Up Revealing Enormous True Size of the Reserves

During the Budget Debate on Friday 26 February Heng was asked about using the proceeds from land sales in the […]

Budget 2021- Not Enough Stimulus in FY2020, Premature Withdrawal of Aid in FY 2021 and Not Enough Help for Singaporeans

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Inadequate Stimulus in FY2020 In my last blog post, written just before the Budget presentation, […]

On Eve of Budget 2021, It Is Clear the Economy Is Paying the Price for the Government’s Failure To Provide Enough Stimulus

In a few hours my old Cambridge colleague, the Finance Minister and Postponed Yet Again Seat Warmer PM-In-Waiting Heng Swee […]

Err! Ho Ching Quits as Temasek CEO in Surprise Move To Seek New Challenges (PM or President?)

Today I was greeted by the news that Ho Ching, PM Lee’s wife, was stepping down from her position as […]

When Will Heng Swee Keat and Lee Hsien Loong Be Prosecuted for Wounding My Racial Feelings ?

Today a man, “Sirajudeen Abdul Majeed, 52, was given two weeks’ jail and fined S$7,000 on Monday (Feb 8) for […]

Success in the Constitutional Challenge to Section 377A Opens the Door to Overturning Other Unjust Laws

On Monday January 25th lawyers for three gay men argued before a five-judge Court of Appeal that the High Court […]

Launch of New Charity: The J B Jeyaretnam Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 05th 2021 On this day in 1926, J B Jeyaretnam, the first Opposition MP to be […]

Don’t Believe the State Media When They Say There’s Internal Conflict in Reform Party

Yesterday the Straits Times published an article entitled “Former Reform Party chairman Andy Zhu and others form new political party, […]

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