TR EMERITUS

Usually when we talk about liberalism and democracy, those two words are taken to mean the same thing. But in today’s context what is apparent is that liberalism is really about unbridled capitalism while democracy has become bureaucratized. It is how ‘liberalism’ as an economic system is left uncontrolled and free, while... 

70% of S’poreans regularly get criticised from the unhappy 30% (whether sane like Chris K or Cherian George or insane like TRE donor, Oxygen, Philip Ang or Dr Chee). Two persons, talking about the UK, shed light why the 7o% did what they did, and why at least 60% of the voters will keep on voting PAP so long as the PAP delivers... 

MR LEE KUAN YEW, thinking that the erstwhile Soviet Union would become a dominant global power, “encouraged” Lee Hsien Loong, then a teenager, to study the Russian language. Fast forward four decades, and Russia has not only not achieved world dominance, it has also become a distrusted brand in many parts of the world. What...