TR EMERITUS

No wonder the PAP is trying so hard, making use of the media, electoral reforms and other means, to prevent accountability in our parliament. They know too well that there is a heavy price to pay if the government policies and measures are open, transparent and subject to more questionings. Donald Tsang, his term of office... 

When Rome was burning, Nero was fiddling on the roof. Why was that so? Why did Nero have all the time to play his fiddle when Rome was burning? He had too much time on his hand. He had appointed a cabinet of very talented ministers to run the empire for him. They were the best the empire could find. He was happy and at ease... 

One year after the watershed General Election of May 2011 (GE 2011), political observers, reading the signs being sent out by the government, must be wondering about when—or if—the changes that had then seemed an inevitable consequence of the election, would actually take place. For currently, the signs are mixed and ambiguous,...