TR EMERITUS

In a story headlined HDB extends LBS to 5-room and larger units as resale value of old flats continues to slide TOC’s “Correspondent” inadvertently (He very anti-PAP and his mental health shows it: More evidence that being anti-PAP is bad for yr mental health) shows that PAP cares for those flat owners who have 5-roomers... 

Considering Dr Tan Cheng Bok’s re-entry in to politics with his new Progress Singapore Party I wanted to take a moment to look at our political landscape and ask how it has got to this place where such a small Island now has 12 active political parties, 11 as Alternatives to the incumbent PAP. When you look at the history... 

"All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists," declared W.E.B. Du Bois, the African American philosopher and civil rights leader, in "Criteria for Negro Art" (1926). The trenchant declaration captures a vital truth about the function of literature in directing the sympathies of the reader. Being...