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. […]
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 […]
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 elected to Parliament post-1965, was born. JBJ, as he was affectionately […]
Not To Be Outdone for Superlatives by the PAP’s Singapore, PM Lee Sets a New Guinness World Record
Tomorrow will set a new world record of sorts. In the morning Lee Hsien Loong will appear to be cross-examined in the criminal defamation trial of Terry Xu, editor of […]
As Singaporeans Increasingly See the Light, the Arc May Be Starting to Bend
I have frequently accused Lee Hsien Loong and his family of corruptly using state resources to stay in power and promote his and his wife’s financial interests. Of course he […]
Enough Already with the Hypocrisy and Lies, Lee Hsien Loong!
Dear Mr Lee Hsien Loong, In a Facebook post on Tuesday 10 November, following your Minister Shanmugam’s Parliamentary statement on the Parti Liyani case you said: Building a democratic society […]
You Don’t Have to Believe Shanmugam Pulls the Strings to Know That the PM Has Too Much Influence Over the Judiciary
Yesterday I read that M. Ravi is being investigated by the police for criminal defamation. He posted on Facebook on 6 November that Eugene Thuraisingham, another lawyer in whose firm […]
Shanmugam Abuses Parliamentary Privilege to Retry and Convict Parti Liyani
As promised in October, Law Minister Shanmugam delivered a statement in Parliament yesterday on the Parti Liyani case. I have previously written extensively about it here, here here, here and […]
An Archaic and Repressive Law Corruptly Misused
Hot on the heels of his vexatious libel suit against innocuous blogger Leong Sze Hian, Lee Hsien Loong is now using the AG to dust off an archaic law and […]
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