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 more freedom than the people of Belarus and North Korea. […]
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 September 2021. The directors would particularly like to thank our […]
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 was spun as economic but was clearly a political decision. […]
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 US Embassy of a webinar on LGBTQI rights with local […]
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 an essay he wrote for Wired magazine. (In 2013 I […]
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 Facebook that the attack “goes against everything that our multiracial […]
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 entitled “PAP in Disarray? Much More Likely That LHL Is […]
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 of the 4G team and from contention to be the […]
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 was wrong to dismiss their challenge to the constitutionality of […]
