PM Lee Must Step Out of the Shadows and Condemn the Violence Against Amos
I am writing this blog in a state of shock and horror after seeing the video of Amos Yee being physically assaulted and then taunted outside the Court. Our Police […]
The Case against Amos Yee Proves We Have No Rule of Law
The Amos Yee prosecution is yet another clear demonstration of the fact that we have no rule of law in Singapore. How would you define rule of law? Tom Bingham, […]
Why A By-Election Must Be Held in Tanjong Pagar
The death of Lee Kuan Yew leaves his seat in Tanjong Pagar GRC vacant. Recently a Bloomberg journalist asked me to comment on the suggestion that Lee’s seat in Tanjong Pagar […]
My Response to David Pilling from the Financial Times
I have reproduced above David Pilling’s article that I refer to in my last blog post “Perspiration without Inspiration. Singapore’s Role in the Asian Economic Boom.” Below is the letter that […]
Perspiration without Inspiration. Singapore’s Role in the Asian Economic Boom.
The death of Lee Kuan Yew has shown that much of the rest of the world believes that he brought about an economic miracle in Singapore. Furthermore the world believes that […]
Will the Taxpayer End Up Subsidizing Ho Ching’s Bonus?
In Budget 2015 the Finance Minister allocated $3 billion towards the construction of the new Terminal 5 at Changi Airport. He stated that he would be setting up a new […]
How Lee Kuan Yew and Hitler Both Love Authoritarian Capitalism
I wrote a letter to the Financial Times last week in response to an article dated 1 February 2015. The article, by Slavoj Zizek, international director of the Birkbeck Institute […]
On Roy, JBJ, Fines and Defamation
Why is the Central Provident Fund Minimum Sum being raised and why can’t we take out money out when we like after 55? Why GIC and Temasek make money (if that is what they are doing) from using our captive savings and paying us a non-market interest rate? Roy has done us all a favour. He got so close to showing us how to demand accountability and stand up for our rights.
Singapore: No Bullet Was Fired in the Harming of Our Cartoonist.
Without actually shooting anyone, Singapore kills off journalism, murders freedom of expression, destroys cartoonists.
The Ricebowl Singapore (TRS) 