The campaign for the next election begins now From Todayonline : "The election is a politicising process — we politicise and raise the ...

In a slip of her tongue, ST political journalist Chua Mui Hoong tells the honest truth about using the upgrading election gimmick. "Vot...

I wasn't surprised with the results - not with the lower national vote for the Whiteshirts, or with Messrs Chiam and Low holding on to t...

3rd May 06 - Lunchtime Election Rally "Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We can deal with them. Suppose yo...

The test of a democracy is not the elections. During my discussion with Rench in the previous post , I feel we have come back to the origin...

Thaksin Shinawatra generates some sympathy fawning from some normally critical local bloggers . It's not easy to see why: he was on the...

Sylvia Lim, the chief of the Worker's Party, raises the standard complaint about the unfair bloating of GRCs from 4 to 6 wards. That...

I never expected such crap from Reuters . "SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's government dissolved parliament on Thursday and called...

On 12 April 2006, Channel News Asia Singapore telecast a dialogue between Papalee and several Singaporeans born after 1970. You don't h...

A party desperately clutching at straws. An election gimmick that didn't quite work the first time round. The same election gimmick used...

My tuition kid and I love to read the Straits Times. So far we've learnt that: 1. Forum letters all seem to say "I so angry/stupid ...

And a BG is Born! Minilee's son recently passed out from basic military training at Tekong with a marksmanship medal. Chibilee's ach...

Singapore's leaders are a bunch of creative people who repackage every possible concept in Democracy 101 into Orwell 1984. Civil society...

Via Edward , This 5'27" video capture from Al Jazeera's news programme on 21 Feb shows an Arab-American psychologist berating h...

It has been 4 months since the Substation launched its monthly online magazine ("The Substation Magazine"). While it does mostly p...

The Curious Incident of the Workfare Budget in Parliament On 1 March, Minilee announced in Parliament, near the end of the Budget debates, t...

In Parliament on Wednesday, Minilee solemnly declares the workfare bonus is a one-off bonus; having it every year will lead to welfarism, wh...

What pomp, what ceremony! Rajaratnam's funeral is a full-dress rehearsal for papalee's great requiem mass! How does one plan for the...

Attention! A mutant strain of the SumikoTan virus, under development in the top secret labs of ST's Toa Payoh labs, has broken out and i...