TR EMERITUS

In 2008 when he founded the Reform Party, JBJ famously asked the question whether the citizens of Singapore enjoyed any more freedom than the people of Belarus and North Korea. Although that might have seemed a bit of a stretch then, certainly in the case of North Korea, the recently passed Foreign Interference (Countermeasures)... 

I’ve often said it but Singapore is one of the hardest places to discuss political commentary because of the surface of things, everything looks relatively good. Even with Covid exposing gaps in the government’s basic operations, things still look relatively good when compared to most parts of the world. It’s not just... 

Singapore is what you could call a “hyper achieving” nation. Nothing excites our government more than the opportunity to talk about all our wonderful achievements, which we managed to do without any resources and despite lacking just about everything that you need to get by. We have the best airport (rankings of the world’s...