Singapore Government Bullies The Economist But Fails To Refute.
How the PAP are unable to refute Justice Coles on the Amos Yee asylum case.
Poor Lee Hsien Loong! He Still Cannot Get Rid of His Problems with Yes Men After All These Years
At an event at the end of February 2017, reported on by state media mouthpiece The Straits Times, Lee Hsien Loong announced that “it is important for leaders not to […]
The Curious Question of Dr Tan Cheng Bock’s Timing
Far too late, Dr Tan has broken his silence on the Government’s changes to the Elected Presidency. Sure he has had nearly a year to participate in hearings and give […]
My First Hand Experience of Amos Yee’s Asylum Hearing
My first hand account of my experiences as a witness at Amos Yee's asylum hearing.
Amrin Amin Is Not Fit to be an MP
The PAP Government says the search for the next generation of leaders is progressing nicely. But I wonder how that can be when their skill in setlecting MPs seems to […]
Statement in Support of Amos Yee’s Application for Asylum in The US
I sent this statement to Amos’s mother and lawyer to support his application for asylum in the US: Singapore teenager Amos Yee will shortly appear in court in America to […]
Does China Have What It Takes to Lead The Global Economy?
I just saw a headline in the WSJ, “China Says Prepared to Lead Global Economy if Necessary“, quoting a diplomat in the Chinese foreign ministry’s office of international affairs. President […]
Trump’s determined to take no s**t from China and that spells trouble for Singapore
Newspaper headlines have been dominated by Trump’s decision to take a congratulatory phone call from the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen. This has upended decades of US foreign policy consensus, which […]
Why a Trump victory may not be good for the PAP
Lee Hsien Loong was quick to send his congratulations to Donald Trump after his surprise win over Hillary Clinton. Well a surprise to him but I saw it coming. A […]
(Twitter) Storm in a Tea Cup. Or, How Andrew Loh and other Petty minds Politicised over the PM’s Health.
“With regards to an earlier posting I made…..” This is how Andrew Loh sometime founder/leader/editor of socio-political website TOC, now in hot water for taking foreign funding, started his written […]
Trading Outage Damages Singapore Stock Exchange Reputation.
I have repeatedly pointed out over the last five years that lack of competition and monopoly in political life has the same dire consequences that it has in business. Today […]
The Colour of the Money Bribing You is White on White.
Last Sunday Mr Murali Pillai, the People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate for the Bukit Batok by-election, unveiled a $1.9 million value infrastructure plan for the SMC that can only be […]
Keeping It Under Your Hat -The Panama Papers
The Panama Papers is a massive leak of files from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, engineered by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.(ICIJ) Names and identities released so far include, like the proverbial bad […]
“Like sailing through fog.” Son of Devan Nair on Daughter of Lee Kuan Yew
Most people, if not all, will have seen LKY’s daughter’s, Lee Wei Ling’s, public postings on Facebook saying that she would no longer write for SPH as the editors there […]
#WeAreMinions
Yesterday I wrote about the #WeAreMajulah team. A group of cynics trying to whip up Nationalist fervour by jumping on the bandwagon of the #JeSuisCharlie movement that sprung up as a […]
Slick Presentation and an Appeal to Your Emotions Cannot Hide a Fascist Message
Recently I came across a video by a group callling themselves We are Majulah that has been making the rounds on Facebook. So far it has garnered about 11,000 shares […]
