TR EMERITUS

For years now, many countries the world over have stopped touting meritocracy as a superior governing principle. Intellectuals in countries like Britain and America have denounced meritocracy as a system rigged for the elites by the elites. But in Singapore, perhaps more than in any other country, meritocracy is still the buzzword.... 

It really doesn’t require much effort to go down to Pink Dot, does it? You’ve marked the date on your calendar, and selected your pink outfit. Catching the MRT down to Clarke Quay, you’ve arranged to meet your friends and even curated a picnic. You know you’ll have a great time, come home exhausted and slightly dehydrated,... 

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...