TR EMERITUS

Some times, our government does things that make you wonder whether they have some deep mental problems. Like severe schizophrenia. Take, for example, what they just did regarding the list of law schools recognised in Singapore. Just last year, it was announced that eight law schools from UK would be dropped from the list of... 

Lord Anthony Lester of Herne Hill, who in December 2012 told the British House of Lords that Singapore’s conviction of Alan Shadrake for scandalizing the Singapore court was “the most notorious example” of use of the “outmoded and archaic” law, has published a new book Five Ideas to Fight For. Alan Shadrake, a British... 

*Note the SDP has before the publication of this piece changed the u/m headline to reflect the outrage on social media and the internet at its “cock-up”, “honest mistake”, or “dishonesty” (Goh Meng Seng, who else?*). But the problem of lack of adult supervision still stands, so I’ll not change the piece, but just...