News Reports The mistake made over NMP scheme When I saw the title of the book of essays on the Nominated MP scheme, Are unelected voices still necessary in Parliament?, I did... berthahensonSeptember 16, 2022
News Reports Why I am blasé about Forward Sg exercise I have been waiting to read news reports about responses to the upcoming Forward Sg exercise. Since its launch last month, I can recall... berthahensonJuly 7, 2022
News Reports 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... berthahensonMay 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... berthahensonMay 20, 2022
News Reports Balji, the Bold Two key ingredients are needed for a solid interview to take place. First, the interviewee must have led an interesting life and have interesting... berthahensonMay 18, 2022
News Reports Wong came at the right time I first met Mr Lawrence Wong more than 10 years ago when he was a political newbie from the 2011 general elections. It wasn’t... berthahensonApril 15, 2022
Sticky Post What “snap” poll? Stay calm It’s a sign of how starved of political excitement we are that an announcement of a likely slate of People’s Action Party candidates for... berthahensonMarch 28, 2022
Sticky Post Fishing for red herrings In the early 1800s, an English journalist named William Cobbett wrote a presumably fictional story about how, as a boy, he had used red... berthahensonMarch 6, 2022
Sticky Post No more “in good time” please What a curveball People’s Action Party MP Christopher de Souza threw in Parliament yesterday! In his speech on Budget 2022, he told his 4G... berthahensonMarch 1, 2022
Sticky Post In Ukrainian shoes – or boots “Tonight is the night of all nights’’, said the BBC’s Ukraine correspondent this afternoon, reporting from an underground carpark in Kyiv, the country’s capital.... berthahensonFebruary 27, 2022
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