Double confirm: Netizens are middle-class elitist tribalists with short attention spans
Sometime ago I ranted abt how when manual workers and clerks had sex with an underage FT prostitute, claiming they didn’t know, and were jailed, no-one kicked up a fuss on the internet. But when middle class professionals were charged with a similar offence, netizens rushed to their defence, saying that it was unfair to...
High time we wake up to our responsibilities as citizens and say enough is enough
Kenneth Jeyaretnam I enjoyed reading Chris Tong’s blog “PAP may be arrogant but certainly not (THAT) stupid”. Such cynicism in one so young and aptly summing up how disillusioned we have become that we can ever get accountability from the PAP government. Firstly to deal with the points he raised. There have been many shrill...
Welfare states and economic growth – PM Lee is wrong again
Prof Ian Gough and Tan Jee Say outside the LSE Library on 20 June 2012 “Contrary to naïve interpretations of globalization, the world’s most generous welfare states have developed in societies wide open to and heavily dependent on the world market, such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. These welfare states,...
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