On 1 April the UK Minimum Wage was raised to £10.42 per hour. At current exchange rates of around £1=$1.65 that works out to over $17 an hour. There is […]
I just saw a news report on the BBC that the U.K. PM, Rishi Sunak, is facing questions over shares his wife holds in a childcare agency that could benefit […]
It goes without saying that I am absolutely disgusted by the Court of Three Judges’ (led by Chief Justice Menon) decision to suspend M. Ravi for 5 years when the […]
On 15 March Ministry of Manpower issued a statement on labour market developments in 2022 that was dutifully reported on by LHL’s dedicated media monopoly aimed at ensuring his re-election […]
Recently I tweeted about how Georgians in large numbers had protested against their pro-Russian government’s attempt to introduce a bill requiring NGOs and media receiving more than 20% foreign funding […]
For those who believed that my brother’s recent judgment awarding damages to Allan Mah Kiat Seng was a blow at last against the long standing abuse of overweening police powers […]
In his Budget closing speech on Friday, reported in government propoaganda tool CNA, Lawrence Wong made a number of disingenuous assertions about tax. He said Singaporeans pay much less in […]
In Parliament on Friday Indranee Rajah reiterated like a broken record the constant PAP refrain that we need more immigrants and new citizens, using the hook that TFR has now […]
Recently an article by Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf drew attention to what he characterised as the UK’s fundamental economic problem: a low savings rate as a proportion of GDP […]
Today I read a news item on BBC about how an investigation by the newspaper Le Monde had uncovered how a senior French TV news journalist, Rachid M’Barki was paid […]