In the post Budget 2018 discussion, I feel there are some wong arguments, but also opinions based on value judgements where there isn’t a clear right or wrong. First, there are the usual snake oil sellers who tell you that we can spend more money without raising revenue, or insisting we should draw on our…
The one thing that stood out in yesterday’s Presidential Address was the remarks about possible changes to Singapore’s political system. As I have argued before, whilst the PAP still has its 2/3 majority, it needs to implement constitutional changes to safeguard the future of Singapore, and ensure we avoid the degeneration that Western political systems…
President Hollande has finally called the Paris attacks what they really are – an act of war. It is inane to characterise these and similar attacks as mere acts of terror or the acts of religious extremists. ISIS has grown into a state that both operates within a physical, geographical domain in the Middle East,…
Learn from Britain, and avoid the mistakes it made when it overhauled a merit-based system and ended up with a system criticised for dumbing down examinations. By Calvin Cheng, Published The Straits Times, 28 Aug 2015 The recent debate on elitism and meritocracy in our education system struck a chord. As children of the 1970s, my…
In the last few days, the reality is finally setting in that Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is entering the final moments of his life. When the news began to filter to me on Wednesday that the media were gathering at the Singapore General Hospital, and there were sightings of next-of-kin arriving, I too thought that…
PM Lee has said that the next General Election will be ‘deadly serious’ as each constituency would be fought on national issues, not local issues. Each constituency will fight a National Election and not a By-Election. In my humble opinion, PM Lee is by and large correct. Singapore is so uniformly run that we cannot…
Every Singaporean should agree with the MCI Minister Yaacob Ibrahim that it was fortunate that the Communists lost the battle for Singapore in the early days of our state; as it turned out Communism proved to be a fatally flawed political system that eventually collapsed. Even China is now only nominally communist, having adopted capitalist…
Some of these points I have already put on my Facebook Page, but I think it is useful to re-post on my blog, and add some clarifications. Firstly, I have never said MDA regulates companies. That is the job of ACRA. Neither have I said that MDA is only interested in regulating companies. I have…
I refer to the op-ed by Mr. Howard Lee “MDA regulations – Still no clarity, just another questionable voice”. In this rebuttal to my article on the Free My Internet’s statement, Mr Lee raises several points which I will clarify below. Firstly, my comparison of the Breakfast Network and the Independent was never based on…
In the wake of the shutdown of the Breakfast Network, the Free My Internet movement issued a statement questioning the Media Development Authority’s ability to act as a Media Authority. This is not only an overreaction, it was a statement based on several logical fallacies. To begin with, the shutdown of the Breakfast Network has…
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