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Drug-laced vaping shows that Singaporeans are not immune to addiction and need the law to protect them post image
By Michael Petraeus
Jul 23, 2025

Drug-laced vaping shows that Singaporeans are not immune to addiction and need the law to protect them

Rise in vaping of psychedelic infused pods vindicates the tough anti-drug policy

Society
Has nobody noticed? Pritam didn’t say he doesn’t want to be PM but admitted it’s just political strategy post image
By Michael Petraeus
Jul 11, 2025

Has nobody noticed? Pritam didn’t say he doesn’t want to be PM but admitted it’s just political strategy

Workers’ Party
Singapore Opposition
Politics
Struggling to find a mission for WP Pritam Singh tries to take credit for Lee Kuan Yew's idea post image
By Michael Petraeus
Jul 1, 2025

Struggling to find a mission for WP Pritam Singh tries to take credit for Lee Kuan Yew's idea

Workers’ Party
Politics
Let’s talk about foreign interference in Singapore again post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 30, 2025

Let’s talk about foreign interference in Singapore again

Media
Society
Politics
PAP’s 4G leadership transition started poorly but ended better than any before it post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 9, 2025

PAP’s 4G leadership transition started poorly but ended better than any before it

Lawrence Wong becomes the first PM to improve on his predecessor's result.

General Election 2025 People’s Action Party Politics
The real reason opposition parties hate the EBRC and shifting boundaries: it forces them to work post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 7, 2025

The real reason opposition parties hate the EBRC and shifting boundaries: it forces them to work

Why put in the effort if you can just claim PAP is running a dictatorship?

General Election 2025 Singapore Opposition
Why didn’t PAP send a stronger team to retake Sengkang? It wasn’t worth it because of the NCMP scheme post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 6, 2025

Why didn’t PAP send a stronger team to retake Sengkang? It wasn’t worth it because of the NCMP scheme

For the future of Singapore it would be better if Sengkang returned to the PAP. But the possible political outcomes made it a gamble not worth taking.

General Election 2025 People’s Action Party
Singapore’s perfect man: Pritam Singh is never responsible for any failure post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 5, 2025

Singapore’s perfect man: Pritam Singh is never responsible for any failure

The perpetual victim of Singapore's politics is at it again.

Workers’ Party General Election 2025
The biggest losers of Singapore’s GE: Tan Cheng Bock and Pritam Singh post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 4, 2025

The biggest losers of Singapore’s GE: Tan Cheng Bock and Pritam Singh

This GE has been far more significant than it seems at first glance.

General Election 2025 Politics Singapore Opposition Progress Singapore Party Workers’ Party
GE2025: Singapore has passed the sanity test post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 4, 2025

GE2025: Singapore has passed the sanity test

Lunatics, race-baiters and liars have all been disciplined by the voters this year.

General Election 2025 Politics
Why did Trump impose a 10% tariff on Singapore? And why isn’t he willing to remove it? post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 2, 2025

Why did Trump impose a 10% tariff on Singapore? And why isn’t he willing to remove it?

Trump's first trade war has taught him some valuable lessons.

International Affairs
A promising run-up to the GE ends with a Nomination Day disaster for the Workers’ Party post image
By Michael Petraeus
Apr 24, 2025

A promising run-up to the GE ends with a Nomination Day disaster for the Workers’ Party

Glowing headlines of the past few weeks sound hollow today.

General Election 2025 Workers’ Party Singapore Opposition
GE25: Parliamentary majority for the opposition would be the best result - but only if they implement their ideas post image
By Michael Petraeus
Apr 21, 2025

GE25: Parliamentary majority for the opposition would be the best result - but only if they implement their ideas

Voters should get the taste of the political alternative - but only if it includes all of its ideas.

General Election 2025 Singapore Opposition
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By Michael Petraeus
Apr 18, 2025

Workers’ Party is inviting defeat in Sengkang with its 2025 manifesto

They had the chance to play it safe but chose to double down on some of their worst proposals instead.

General Election 2025 Workers’ Party
PAP is handling the lead-up to the 2025 election better than five years ago post image
By Michael Petraeus
Apr 17, 2025

PAP is handling the lead-up to the 2025 election better than five years ago

Has the ruling party learned the lessons from the 2020 disappointment?

General Election 2025 People’s Action Party Politics
Speaking of Harpreet Singh, he just blew up Pritam Singh’s fearmongering tactic for the GE post image
By Michael Petraeus
Apr 16, 2025

Speaking of Harpreet Singh, he just blew up Pritam Singh’s fearmongering tactic for the GE

Is this why WP didn't want to allow interviews?

General Election 2025 Workers’ Party Singapore Opposition
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