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Here’s an interesting comment from a FT reader commenting on (What else?) Brexit.  He’s saying that Brexit (and the Eurozone  crisis) should be blamed on cuts to the benefits of what conservatives, the PAP (including Tharman) and the majority of S’poreans (self-included) would call the “undeserving poor”. (They (and... 

I know it is hard being a liberal in Singapore. Nevertheless, I do find it disappointing that fellow liberals labelled the Brexit result in the UK as something of a triumph for neo-Fascist or Fascist populism. I have no issue with the populism bit but it is the Facist part that I find very difficult to reconcile. First it implies... 

Britain is split - between social classes, regions and age groups. For the under-25s, the majority of whom who voted for Remain, felt betrayed by the over-60s, the majority of whom were for Leave. As one young under-graduate wrote "my generation is now denied the right to live and work in 27 other countries". The overwhelming...