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Has Pritam Singh just promised to resign? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Sep 15, 2025

Has Pritam Singh just promised to resign?

How else is he planning to raise the standing of the parliament if his appeal fails?

Workers’ Party
Politics
Singapore Opposition
Donald Low, HKUST professor from Singapore dismisses Charlie Kirk’s murder as “karma” post image
By Michael Petraeus
Sep 12, 2025

Donald Low, HKUST professor from Singapore dismisses Charlie Kirk’s murder as “karma”

Society
Law & Order
Sammy Obeid has only hurt the Palestinian cause and its supporters in Singapore post image
By Michael Petraeus
Sep 5, 2025

Sammy Obeid has only hurt the Palestinian cause and its supporters in Singapore

International Affairs
Society
Could Gan Kim Yong have negotiated better with the US? Well, just look at Switzerland... post image
By Michael Petraeus
Aug 8, 2025

Could Gan Kim Yong have negotiated better with the US? Well, just look at Switzerland...

People’s Action Party
Economy
Politics
Is gay marriage on the table after 377A repeal? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Dec 4, 2022

Is gay marriage on the table after 377A repeal?

Many people appear to be concerned that LGBT groups in Singapore are going to demand marriage equality, now that 377a is heading for a repeal. After all, anything can be painted as discrimination, no? Let's unpack this. 1. Yes, LGBT groups are going to keep demanding - perhaps

Society
Will there ever be a world without politicking? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 29, 2022

Will there ever be a world without politicking?

Some people have called me out on my last post by defending Pritam and WP for allowing free expression on the matter of 377A repeal, commending them for such a "bold" move. And what I've been trying to say all this while, that it's

Workers’ Party Singapore Opposition Politics
Workers’ Party has just managed to offend everyone post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 28, 2022

Workers’ Party has just managed to offend everyone

Sometimes I really hate politics. But even when that happens it may still be very entertaining. It seems that 377A has posed some serious challenges for the Workers Party and how they handled it backfired in the most hilarious way. They appear to be trying to reconcile their earlier positions,

Workers’ Party Singapore Opposition Politics Society
Differences between AIM and AHTC cases explained post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 11, 2022

Differences between AIM and AHTC cases explained

After my posts about the AHTC some angry folks kept coming here and waving their fists - "what about AIM case with PAP!?". And while it is rather annoying to have to keep explaining things that were already explained once I have to say it's also

Workers’ Party People’s Action Party Politics
There’s one alternative to GST hike that nobody is talking about post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 9, 2022

There’s one alternative to GST hike that nobody is talking about

So far, the only alternatives to the impending GST hike in Singapore are based on taking money from somewhere else. But what if there was one that didn't require any new taxes or draining the reserves? In fact, what I'm about to point to is one

Economy National Budget Immigration
Why aren’t specific HDB subsidy and development cost figures released? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 8, 2022

Why aren’t specific HDB subsidy and development cost figures released?

Why aren't specific HDB subsidy and development cost figures released? I think PAP sometimes has a problem in communications - though in this case it might be the fault of the parliamentary formula of asking questions and providing answers on the spot. I agree that the response given

Housing
Is there any decency left in the Workers’ Party? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 7, 2022

Is there any decency left in the Workers’ Party?

My blood really boiled yesterday. I have to say that I used to think that Workers' Party was a group of maybe not very competent but at least fairly decent people, infected perhaps by a few too many left-wing ideas (hey, nobody is perfect, right?). But I am increasingly

Workers’ Party Singapore Opposition Politics
Why British Opium Wars are relevant to Singapore post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 5, 2022

Why British Opium Wars are relevant to Singapore

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

Society Law & Order History
Drug spat with Richard Branson: activists are not stakeholders, the society is post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 1, 2022

Drug spat with Richard Branson: activists are not stakeholders, the society is

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'

Society Law & Order
Branson chickens out of drug policy debate post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 1, 2022

Branson chickens out of drug policy debate

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

Society Law & Order
Are HDB apartments really more expensive than in the past? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Oct 25, 2022

Are HDB apartments really more expensive than in the past?

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

Housing
PAP and WP agree: more money is needed. Their financing ideas, however, are very different post image
By Michael Petraeus
Oct 22, 2022

PAP and WP agree: more money is needed. Their financing ideas, however, are very different

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

Politics National Budget
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