Singapore’s ‘mid-life crisis’
PM Lee (17 Aug) - At Singapore's 49th National Day parade last week, the loudest cheers weren't for the dazzling fireworks or for the fine military displays. They were reserved for the arrival of Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. Lee, who turns 91 next month, was prime minister from 1965 to 1990 and transformed...
Medical care cannot be subjected to market forces
I fully agree with Dr Tang Kok Foo ("Reasons for soaring private health-care costs"; Thursday) that the free market for private health care has to be reined in, and the unhealthy practice of doctors competing against one another to charge higher fees should be stopped. Medical care cannot be subjected to market forces. When...
£90,000 plus expenses wasn’t enough for Tory MP
Tory Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) (11 Aug) - “What you don’t understand, Chris, is that no Tory MP can survive on £33,000 a year,” one of the grander Conservative MPs (and a multimillionaire to boot) remarked to me as we were queuing in the members’ tea room. Much to my embarrassment,...
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