On the morning of 31 March 2017, Dr Tan Cheng Bock held a press conference on the upcoming presidential election. During this conference, th...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan will make Turkey great again! Mr Recep Erdogan has been organising, in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austri...

HARDTalk  interviews are hardly a fireside chat Did prime minister Lee Hsien Loong " do us proud " yesterday, or did he stutt...

Yes, the Syonan Gallery has been renamed to the less offensive and traumatising " Surviving the Japanese Occupation: War and its Legac...

The Omnishambles so far... On 10 February 2017, Singapore's National Library Board (NLB) unveiled the new name for the Old Ford ...

In his judgement, the honorable Tay Yong Kwan appears to have made a Solomonic decision: the Attorney-General gets his Official Secrets Act...

In the case of Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang vs Attorney-General , the honorable Tay Yong Kwan has ruled that the transcripts of the late ...

In our "Rise of the anti-intellectual, illiberal left" category, the question is: Which of the following did not happen this wee...

The workmanlike quality of the constitutional commission's report is to to be commended, for its efforts to ensure Minilee's que...

As we argued last month , the principles of the exercise and distribution of power by the state and its agencies, in the event of an inve...

In the distant future of the 2000 AD comic books, Mega-City One is patrolled by a police corps empowered to arrest, convict, sentence, ...

Singapore's Workers Party had an election last weekend. That got them into the news because apparently in Singapore, even for an opposi...

In our previous post , we applied the Dominant Party System model to the Bukit Batok by-elections and made some predictions of the vote, ...

How much of a swing in the electorate does Dr Chee Soon Juan and the SDP need to win the Bukit Batok by-election?

Faster than a speeding bullet, or Minilee's premature constitutional contractions! As public hearings for the constitutional commis...

In the matter of the changes to the elected presidency, it has taken less than 4 months from Lee Hsien Loong's proposals in his speec...

You've probably heard about the blind men and the elephant. In the dominant narrative, the moral of the story one should learn is the l...

Tiny and rich Singapore flails comically when it comes to Indonesia and the haze. For all its claims to being a diplomatic giant on the w...

Every election, Singapore becomes popcorn democracy. Just look at its expert panellists.

Singaporeans voted on 11 September 2015 and returned the People's Action Party to power with a supermajority and a 9.9% swing in its ...