Pink Dot: Why was govt spooked?
28,000 people at a Pink Dot event is the equivalent of a crowd of 330,000 in the UK. or 1.7m in the US. Pretty impressive number then. FT columnist does the sums: Singapore’s annual Pink Dot gay pride gathering attracts big crowds. There were 28,000 people there last year. That is a large turnout in a country with a population...
Profitable to pay elderly poor to leave S’pore
Further to this, where I, tongue-in-cheek, suggested that the PAP administration should follow what Auckland in NZ is doing (paying the poor to leave the city) and pay the elderly poor, among others, to leave S’pore. After all, the cost of living is lower in neighbouring countries. A reader (see below) provides data which...
Brexit and the implications of social inequality
As the example of Brexit has shown, economic inequality causes social inequality and which can tear the country apart, as has UK been politically, and soon physically when Scotland and Northern Ireland might vote to leave the UK. Inequalities have the effect of turning people angry and resentful at their lost opportunities,...
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