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Keeping the Catholic house in order

The silence in Catholic circles is to be expected. No Catholic wants to recall  the sex scandal which led to the the conviction earlier...

May 24, 2022

Reading

Fools or Immortals? So long as they live on in our collective memory

One of the first things that struck me about The Last Fools was how thin the book was. The book on the eight pioneering...

May 20, 2022

Society

Not fake news…but is it news?

I read the Straits Times report yesterday headlined “Study shows how savvy Singapore readers assess credibility of info’’with some amusement. It said that “the...

February 25, 2022

Society

Papering over old people’s needs

When I was updating my mother’s bank passbook at an ATM last week, an old lady in a wheelchair behind me in the queue...

February 25, 2022

Society

A Catholic send-off

I suppose sitting for three hours in an air-conditioned church waiting for a service to start is a lot better than queueing for three...

March 27, 2015

Society

Being Lee Kuan Yew

I cannot be like Lee Kuan Yew. Beyond obvious gender differences, I don’t have his searing intellect and that ability to cajole, persuade and...

March 27, 2015

Society

Mourn now – fight later

Such a strange thing is happening in the ether. The normally silent majority seemed to be speaking up. They are thumping those who had...

March 25, 2015

News Reports

No man like him

And now the grieving starts. I had a look again at the television broadcast of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s announcement of his father’s...

March 23, 2015

Society

Rest In Peace, Mr Lee

And so it’s happened…he’s gone. That’s the news Singapore will wake up to this morning. Mr Lee Kuan Yew died at 3.18am. He was...

March 22, 2015
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