TR EMERITUS

To those looking at the result of the by election superficially, there will be despair, the cursing of the voters for being silly and selfish, and the gutter politics that got another PAP MP into Parliament. But there are several positive trends developing and clearly evident in this by election and a confirmation that the trends... 

Dr Chee Soon Juan suffers yet another debilitating defeat losing the Bukit Batok by-election by a massive 12% though he improves on the SDP previous candidate’s result in GE 2015 by 10%. Many anticipate a better result in the forty percentile mark but it was not meant to be. For those who thought that Dr Chee will win, they... 

Even in a country like the UK with its long tradition of fair play, an active and usually liberal civil society, and independent institutions, it took almost three decades to uncover a cover-up and a perversion of justice about 96 men, women and children who died in the Hillsborough stadium disaster in April 1989. The cover-up...