Ringisei has done a succinct analysis of the ideological conditions that grip our national consciousness and psyche, and his 'uncomfortable' pessimistic conclusion follows logically. Let me introduce a brief class analysis of the political flow of Singaporean history to see whether ringisei's conclusion may be shaken and the mountains moved.

When the issue of corporate governance and GIC is broached, these are some overlapping issues which come to mind. 1.Comparison with Temasek's recent openness 2.The government's accountability and transparency 3.The government's blank cheque attitude 4.Balancing public and government interests..

Civil education in our schools is mainly textual and emphatic on civic duties rather than civil rights and responsibilities, reinforced by compulsory 'volunteer' work in various community involvement projects. Students learn close to nothing about democratic processes and principles, and this only furthers the reproduction of social and political apathy in each cohort...

mrbrown first came into the Government's crosshairs with the bar chor mee podcast. It was serious enough to warrant the attention of Minister Lee Boon Yang which in turn created an uproar in blogosphere. But it was mrbrown's article (let's call it Rising Costs, Shrinking Incomes) in Today that compelled the Government to pull the trigger...

The alleged plot to bomb passenger jets from the UK to the US with liquid explosives is the latest reminder that terrorism remains a serious threat. The UK and Singapore have both been targetted by terorrists and the respective governments have issued highly illuminating reports since 2001 on terrorism. The main focus of this post is to compare the two sets of government …

You would probably have heard about the recent bad publicity incurred by the mainstream media over its coverage ofphenomenon blogs. To be more accurate, the has persisted since the emergence of the Singapore blogosphere...

My contention is that our government is refusing to negotiate on this implied right to one type of vociferous feedback, street protests. It seems like there is a zero-tolerance policy on them although there are no grounds for a de facto ban on Singaporeans peacefully going to the streets in protest of a particular cause, however sound or stupid the cause might seem...

The aim of this article is to examine some of the comments made by people about the government on the issues of entrepreneurship and put things in perspective. This article also hopes to debunk the myth that the development of entrepreneurship in Singapore is heavily dependent on the government...

The Prime Minister's National Day Message is usually a prelude--or what we might call an executive summary--of the later Rally Speech. The former outlines the main points to be discussed in the latter. In addition, the Prime Minister's Office presumably composes the Rally Speech in consultation with the various ministries and after collating their …

If you have not heard this, please give it a shot. It is the best Mr Brown podcast ever. Even better than the ter gua podcast. Theatrical maybe to some, but the essence of it is poignant. Especially if the astute observor steps back and understands that the patriotic podcast was forged in the unfortunate incident of the government not tolerating any sincere criticism from the …