Some people in Singapore have tried to argue, in the recent spat between MHA and Richard Branson over drug policy, that bringing up British mid-19th century Opium Wars in China is somehow not relevant to Singapore and out of place in the exchange. I beg to differ. It may seem
One thing the woke left has always excelled at is its ability to inflate its importance with meaningless words. All the "activists", "NGOs", "advocates", "campaigners" are really just euphemisms for "parasites". Because that's what they are, isn'
So, predictably, Richard Branson has chickened out from public debate on drug policy with K Shanmugam Sc but the way he did that reveal just what a nauseatingly disgusting person he is (much like all hippie do-gooders, though). In a statement posted on his blog on Monday and addressed to
So many people have been lamenting just oh how much HDB apartments cost these days, and how their parents were able to pay theirs off in like 4 years but their children now take a mortgage for 25 years... and so on, that I've decided to do what
I think it's worth reminding all of those complaining about the bump in GST that, actually, both PAP and WP agree that more money is needed. It's not like the government is somehow raiding the pockets of millions of Singaporeans, while the opposition is up in
So, the amendment of the GST bill is proceeding through the parliament, meaning the hike is just around the corner. And, I know, we've been through this topic many times already. We've heard it all from politicians (both PAP and opposition) arguing for and against the
How to spot if a politician is an insecure, ignorant paranoiac mentally stuck in the 18th century? He's obsessed about land. I'm not really sure what Mahathir wanted to accomplish with his comments, given that most Malaysians would very much like to see their country become
Two years have now passed since Jamus Lim suggested borrowing money to fund additional spending by the government during a parliamentary debate on i.a. minimum wage in September of 2020. Subsequent events of these two years show us who was right on policy - and the differences between economic
Coming from a communist country, which had suffered half a century of repression of freedom of speech and which is now experiencing serious abuses of power - with state media turned into an aggressive tube of propaganda (that could almost rival the DPRK), while private outlets are either bought up
Regular complaints about Formula 1 race in Singapore are really rather annoying. The whole event is not only a bargain for the city-state but an investment generating a very positive ROI. The cost of organizing the race is about $150 million. 60% is paid directly by the government with the
In the heated conversations under my previous two posts about the influence of the British Empire on Singapore one thing stood out to me: it seems that everybody agrees at least on one thing - that the city-state is really the only successful former colony in the world. No country
Predictably my last post ruffled a few feathers leading some to protest how dare I say such things! Sadly, ignorance comes in many different flavours, so now I'd like to address some of them separately. One may believe presenting historical facts should be enough but ethnonationalist biases, ego
