TR EMERITUS

Last few days, we have seen a tsunami of rhetorical headlines flooded our absolute state-controlled newspaper, The Straits Times expounding that our ever self-serving and authoritative ruling party PAP is now purportingly going to change for the better to being a more inclusive, empathic and people-serving government. Few examples... 

Singaporeans have always regarded Malaysians as our inferior cousins. We turn our noses up at their “backwater lifestyle”, snail- pace economy, and kampung mentality (we think we are better). Last week, our Malaysian counterparts have shown they possess courage, determination, drive and political savviness. When they realised... 

In recent weeks, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Ministers have been talking about the dangers of inequality and elitism. Isn’t that most ironic, coming from the world’s highest paid politicians? The very people who make in one day what many families make in one month! Do they know what it’s like to worry about...