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Goh Chok Tong In less than 36 hours time, Singaporeans will know whether the man who was paid very much more than President Bush was wearing glasses, or blinkers when he made a major foreign policy statement in 2003 to support the US led invasion of Iraq. He is Goh Chok Tong, the Prime Minister of Singapore at the time of the... 

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...