I haven't broadly shared this article before, so in case you missed it in the news blitz about Iswaran and SMRT, here it is (also sent directly into your inbox).
We're used to thinking of Singapore's opposition only in terms of the Workers' Party, maybe PSP and Chee Soon Juan of SDP tirelessly trying his luck. But all of them represent varying degrees of populism.
However, as PAP is turning towards welfarism, hoping to allay the fears of the population regarding rising living costs (even if data doesn't really back that impression, people are emotional more than rational beings after all), it may incentivise creation of a new kind of opposition in Singapore.
