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Ok I thought I would spend just one post on the Dr Patrick Tan NS affair, but something turned up such that I couldn’t resist writing about it. The previous post on Dr Patrick Tan, which was really more of a series of questions on Patrick Tan’s NS stint is found here. Some updates: Mohd Nizam, who was supposed to meet Dr... 

I didn't catch PM Lee's speech yesterday, so I'm relying entirely on media reports and a rough transcript (in point form) provided by the PMO here. So if there's something Lee said but which was not captured in the transcript, I would have missed it out. I was surprised by media coverage such as Yahoo's headline PM Lee’s... 

In his remarks on the Presidential Contest [link], Emeritus Senior Minister Goh was quoted as saying that Singaporeans must choose between pragmatic and populist politics: “In pragmatic politics, Singaporeans will accept measures with short-term pain but long-term gain. In populist politics, they want immediate gratification...