Will a 2-house legislature work better?
Governance Systems: there is a basic problem with 4 or 5 year electoral cycles. It is too short for meaningful programs and it encourages a lot of political bickering. The worse thing is it produces short term policies. The PAP pride itself of being long term in its policy orientation. In this it is different from most OECD...
Grandpa’s Revenge
Opposition Politics in Singapore is a thankless task. Generally speaking, the role of the opposition in Singapore has been to serve as a punching bag for the government party. The government, which controls some 79 seats out of a total of 84 in a unicameral parliament, has a habit of using every trick in the book to make life...
Will POFMA lead to self-censorship?
Does POFMA lead to self-censorship? I think it does. While I recognise the problem of fake news, I believe the law is overly wide and furthermore that the way that the government has chosen to use it in the first 4 cases lends credibility to the argument that the law has a political purpose that the government has not admitted...
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