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Winning Istanbul mayoral candidate Ekrem Imamoglu The campaign slogan of the opposition mayoral challenger who won in a race for control of Turkey’s biggest and most important city Istanbul was: “Everything will be alright”. Yes indeed, everything will be alright and democracy always wins. Why do these elections in Turkey... 

Recently devoted family retainer and PM-in-waiting Heng Swee Keat called on Singaporeans to build a “democracy of deeds”. He was quoting LKY’s loyal and well rewarded sycophant, former Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam. If we look at the actual words he used we get a darker meaning than Heng’s words appear to bear on... 

I feel all political systems are a balance between Socialist and Capitalist ideals on the one axis and Democratic and Autocratic management methods on the other. For example, Communism is an extreme autocratic socialist model and most Western systems sit somewhere on the democratic side of the graph swinging between more socialist...