An Open Letter to the President of The Association of Criminal Lawyers
29 March 2017 Dear Mr Sudheesan I respect the fact that you have many years of experience as a criminal lawyer and, though I do not know you, my friendship […]
Beware of This Man! LHL Will Boost Singapore’s Population to 10 Million Once Global Growth Recovers
At his extraordinary pre-election broadcast moderated by civil servant Chan Heng Chee Lee Hsien Loong admitted what I have been saying now for years: the PAP have no economic plan […]
The International Scholarship Programme is a Perfect Example of the Discrimination Practised Against Singaporeans
In my last article (Has Lee Hsien Loong Forgotten Who Pays His Salary?) I wrote about the way that Lee Hsien Loong and the PAP Government treat expats as more […]
Has Lee Hsien Loong Forgotten Who Pays His Salary?
Today PM Lee posted a letter he had received, ostensibly from an expatriate family on his Facebook page. The family thanked him for their three years in Singapore and said […]
Does the ASEAN Agreement on Free Movement of Labour Threaten Singaporean Jobs: Alex Au’s Views
A few days ago Alex Au put up a blog post entitled “ASEAN single market and the free movement of skilled labour”. He mentions my previous post on this subject, […]
The PAP Sausage Making Machine, Foreign Professors and Our Inferiority Complex
A warning I have been warning for the past five years about the effect of an open-door foreign worker policy in depressing the wages of native Singaporean workers and in […]
When immigration stops being the elephant in the room and becomes the great white shark in your parliament.
On April 23 the Straits Times (ST) hosted a roundtable to sit around and discuss a survey of people’s perceptions of key policies, three years after the 2011 General Election. The panelists […]
Singapore’s Economic and Immigration Policies are Insane
On Friday the Financial Times carried an excellent article by the eminent and long-standing economic commentator, Samuel Brittan. I have reproduced a screenshot of his article above. I remember as […]
Immigration is the Elephant in the Room
Yesterday the ST gave us a centre-page spread by two vice-presidents of the Economics Society discussing the rise in inequality in Singapore. The fact that one of them is the […]
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