TR EMERITUS

First his father said it was honourable to lock up people without trial. Now PM Lee Hsien Loong said it's honourable to screw up a national election by swapping candidates at the last minute like changing underwear. "We're honourable people... Steve Tan is honourable, and we are. And we decided that, awkward as it is, we just... 

“Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?” - Lee Kuan Yew, Asahai Shimbun symposium, May 9, 1991 People are increasingly ignoring MM’s utterances, seeing him as largely irrelevant in the 21st century. He’s had his time in the limelight,... 

The most refreshing piece of news that comes out of the Nomination excercise today is the show of unity by the opposition parties to avoid three-cornered contests and to have straight fights with the PAP in all 14 GRCs and 11 SMCs. The only set-back is in the Punggol East SMC where there is a three-cornered contest involving...