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We’d have free HDB flats and a dead property market if the Coldstore detainess had won power I wrote in If Coldstore detainees had gained power. Here’s more about what would happen if they had gained power. We’d have Socialism, going by what they said at the time then and since. But the trouble with Socialism, Margaret... 

LAW AND HOME Affairs Minister Mr K Shanmugam intoned last week that, left unchecked, the widening income inequality in Singapore would lead to “dire consequences” and that such inequity is “one of the most serious issues” that Singapore faces today. I can almost hear a sarcastic wit shooting back at the Minister with... 

The PAP government must not create million-dollar posts for ministers who have left cabinet.  This is a huge cost to taxpayers. When Lau Goh became PM, the government created the SM post for LKY to continue earning millions in tax dollars. If LKY’s heart was in the right place, he should have refused the salary which was...