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Clarion call to clean politics - 'it is not about cleanliness of the ceiling, it is about clean politics' To continue to attract good people, Singapore needs to have politics that are “constructive” and “clean”, PM said recently. “You can be criticised personally … but what goes on on the Web, all sorts... 

没有看早报，不小心还是在电视看到了维文在国会批判工人党和刘程强的谈话。看到维文那种表现得大义凛然，慎重庄严的态度，心里不是尊重而是鄙夷、感觉不是诚恳而是诙谐 — 自己也觉得过意不去。然而，在看到何惜薇《不让人民为劣质政治文化买单》里头说到： 星期二，我坐在国会大厦记者席上细听环境及水源部长维文医生铿锵有力地说，“清洁门”事件不关乎天花板是否干净，而是与廉洁的政治有关… 我不由得就笑起来。认真说起来，这场所谓的“清洁门”，只不过是无数次的商业纠纷中的一个小涟漪罢了，竟然得由部长在国会里喊话，竟然是李总理说的得到整个政府的支持... 

In PS 101 the wet behind the ear political science students will be going everywhere talking about power in politics. Power is everything in politics. First year students will be made to think so as that was the first book on politics that they would be reading. And that would probably be their first assignment to submit. As...