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I find it amusing that that the Man Utd spoke about loyalty as an aspect they wanted from a successor, given that the club will surely sack the guy if he does not even make it to UCL regularly due to the financial situation the club is in. The ability to achieve certain milestones in the EPL...

I always find LKY's "hard truths" to be ludicrous. Take his comment on Deng. What would LKY say if Deng had sided with the progressives in the communist party (comprised of Zhao Ziyang, et al) and open up dialogue with the protesters? As the Great Helmsman, he could have done that without any...

The election results - be it if they are tainted by electoral fraud or not - clearly shows the urban and rural divide with the opposition having the majority of the popular vote, and it should be a clear signal to the opposition to work on the ground in the rural villages, etc. It will be hard...

Er... She crushed the unions and left entire communities in misery for a generation, even to this day. There was no retraining for them, no program to redevelop the areas economically even after the North Sea oil windfall revenues came in - they were really believer in the neo-liberalism that...

To be fair, it is easy to see why locals want to get their piece of the pie even by dangerously over-leveraging on their earning power to do so. Buying property is uncomplicated and much less arduous compared to starting a small business and there seems to be very little surface risk involved...

If you want to delve deep into it, it is the Old Man's "hard truth" that you do not need to do, just know what others are doing in order to lead them. This is an extrapolation of the scholarship system he created - PSC, etc - and I believe he used the orchestra conductor analogy when defending it.

I find it amusing that this professor has not gone on to do the natural thing and comment on the stagnant and low wages of our Singaporean blue collar workers which provides a huge incentive for parents and their kids to work hard to avoid that trap.

Re: Maybe The Very Good Few *Shrug* Humans are quite easy to fool when you know what are their biases, blind spots, etc. To be honest, LHL reminds me of a senior executive who inherit an organisation where the most of the managers want to report nice things and the pool from where he can...

I do not know if you are being genuine or trolling others in a subtle manner. You remind me of BryanTi, a personage on Facebook who appeared neutral on the surface but was always casting doubt on the credentials, moral fiber, etc, etc of the opposition or trying to lessen the dislike of the...

The Old Man did utter that statement - it was widely reported upon. When I read it in the Straits Time, it struck me he must really buy into his own propaganda that he is a deity in Singapore. For a bigger dose of reality, just look at Egypt's Mubarak - he came from the military, gave all...

I already see my CPF contribution as income tax. [As a side note, once you view it in this manner you will then realize that many indirect and direct taxes in Singapore are regressive in nature. PAP is definitely not a progressive political party in any shape or measure.] The more savvy of my...

Take a look at how Republicans in the US have gerrymandered their way to a House majority in the US elections and you will understand that this can still be done. Of course, you might end up with seemingly random and disconnected neighbourhoods enjoined together to form a SMC / GRC. Imagine...

I honestly cannot see past stage 5 - there are probably so many skeletons in the closet with respect to TH/GIC and other former state owned properties... *SHUDDER* From an idealistic point of view, after hitting stage 5, we should start dis-entrenching the establishment/elite and start them to...

Ha ha. I remember my CO telling us that no one is supposed to talk openly about this policy. An older NSF who came back from studies to do his time queried if this was already outdated, given it was the 21st century. The CO gave the usual spiel about security during peacetime, etc, and even back...

To be honest, I wonder how many overseas properties he has in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, etc.

The keyword is perception. There is a reason why Singapore mainstream news establishment is ranked in the pits in press freedom.

The problem with ISA is that it allows the state to hold someone prisoner without trial - this essentially goes against the precept of habeas corpus. Even Abraham Lincoln, regularly ranked as the greatest president in American history, has this thing hanging over his legacy due to suspending...

Ah, Bryan Ti. Known troll on Facebook. He (or she or they) is much more polite than say Kinanna. But a troll is a troll and eventually they will run out of factual evidence to back up the PAP's policies as being of positive good to Singaporeans. Bryan was smarter in that he avoided discussing...

In a way, it is about money - the amount of money required to offset uncertainty of future. Potential parents will worry about things like expenses, whether the kid can get a good education, job, etc, etc. And I can tell you, after you start ruminating about it, the more able ones will realize...

People have to realize that foreign businesses move out of Singapore due to costs, and costs are not always about labour even though it is the largest component. There are other things like rents, utility costs, etc and the fact that the other governments of developing nations are ready and...