TR EMERITUS

Those intriguing five words were sent via WhatsApp by a friend recently. On reflection, they carry more weight than meets the eye. As is commonly known, SOP stands for Standard Operating Procedure – a very big thing in the civil service and the armed forces. If we go back to the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, the government... 

Can migrant workers in Singapore, most of whom work in the construction and shipping industries, be considered "subalterns"? The Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci first coined the term to identify social groups marginalized and excluded from the socio-economic institutions of society in order to deny their political... 

When I present a view after careful research, some people (I shall not call them idiots) will come to contradict and challenge me. I find it difficult to engage in a discussion with them. They cannot tell the difference between 20 deaths (in Singapore) and 3,000 deaths (in Wuhan). They think both are the same in severity. They...