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Your Name Is on the Cover. Did You Do the Thinking?
100% AI? That May Be the Wrong Question. History Has Entered the Age of Cheap Certainty An AI detector can tell you that writing resembles machine-generated text. It cannot tell…
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Before We Turn a Statistical Pattern Into a Corruption Scandal
Did Singapore Civil Servants Really Trade on MRT Secrets? Singapore Should Welcome Scrutiny. But the Scrutiny Must Survive Scrutiny Too. A new NBER working paper has found a troubling pattern…
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Singapore’s Racial Harmony Is Too Valuable to Defend Only After It Breaks.
The Most Dangerous Racial Agitator May Not Even Be in Singapore. The Law Can Restrict the Agitator. Singaporeans Must Stop the Amplification. Singapore’s new racial harmony law is necessary because…
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I Do Not Want Cheap Ministers. I Want Accountable Ones.
Million-Dollar Ministers? Ask What Singapore Gets in Return. Pay Ministers Well. Then Demand More From Them. Singapore’s political salary debate should not be reduced to whether S$1 million sounds excessive.…
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The Real Test of Singapore Begins When Times Get Hard
Economic Anxiety Is Real. Racial Scapegoating Is Still a Choice. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has warned that economic frustration can harden into divisions over race, religion, foreigners and citizenship. Singapore’s…
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Malaysia Will Choose Its Politics. Singapore Must Protect What Works Here.
Malaysia Will Choose Its Politics. Singapore Must Protect What Works Here. Good Government Has No Race or Religion Abdul Hadi Awang’s remarks about the role of non-Muslim ministers are ultimately…
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Before I Trust Your Platform, Tell Me Who You Are
You want my bank details. I want to know who you are first. The digital economy has made doing business remarkably convenient. Today, an opportunity may begin with nothing more…
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Gandhi. Slavery. Freedom fighters. Gaza. And a few kites at Marina Barrage.
Gandhi. Slavery. Freedom fighters. Gaza. And a few kites at Marina Barrage. That is a remarkable amount of history to load onto one Singapore public-order controversy. A recent response to…
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On Verbosity
On Verbosity Not everything I write is meant to be short. Sometimes I write to inform. Sometimes to analyse. Sometimes to document. And sometimes, quite deliberately, I write because my…
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Your Cause Does Not Put You Above Singapore’s Laws
Singaporeans should be free to criticise the Government, support Palestine, oppose capital punishment and campaign for laws to change. But political conviction does not create a personal exemption from the…