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 boss LHL, whom you served loyally as PPS from 2002 […]
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 news event that is the Singapore Government’s Budget for at […]
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 […]
The Only Ones Making the Government a Laughing Stock Are Lee Hsien Loong and His Sia Suay Wife
In Parliament on Tuesday, in response to a question from Leon Perera, Indranee Rajah demonstrated yet again the hopeless contradictions of the Government’s use of the Protection from Online Falsehood […]
Heng Attempts To Have His Cake and Eat It Too
Today the Minister of Finance, Heng Swee Keat, rejected The Online Citizen (TOC)’s appeal against the Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) issued over its coverage of Taiwan […]
Call Me By My Name. I’m A Lockdown
From Tuesday Singaporeans have been under the same lockdown measures as much of the rest of the world. Calling it a Circuit Breaker, as the PM did, does not make […]
Why Temasek? As a Vehicle to Allow the Lees to Secretly Extract Money?
Temasek’s results were announced on 9 July and they were not a pretty picture. While the Board claimed a 1.5% return for the year to 31 March 2019 this was […]
Why Ho Ching Must Declare Her Salary
On 1 July Malaysia’s Parliament passed a motion to require all MPs, as well as their wives and children, to declare their assets. While it has not yet been passed […]
The Ricebowl Singapore (TRS) 