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In an interview with Deal Street Asia, former PAP MP Inderjit has warned of dire consequences for Singapore under PAP’s brick and mortar economic model. Inderjit on PAP being the problem: “It’s scary because we aren’t changing fast enough, especially if you look at disruption by technology and the effects of globalisation.... 

​JUDGING BY THE by the pronouncements of some of our ministers, you would be forgiven to think that the great Age of Enlightenment à la Descarte, Spinoza, and Hume is upon us, that the thaw of our island's authoritarian frost is come. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat tells the Economic Society of Singapore: “What we need... 

Juz different type of ang moh. They look up to the “Victorians” i.e. the arch colonisers. (Btw, one Raffles, was a pre “Victorian”. Farquhar with his Malay mistress and support of gambling as a source of revenue, was not. But first, below is the govt’s response to an Economist article entitled “Rules are thicker...