Singapore: Complaints, politics and Lawrence Wong | #spuddings
The following was first published on Asian Correspondent In a recent Facebook update, Senior Minister of State for the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts...
View ArticleSingapore: Complaints, politics and Lawrence Wong | #spuddings
The following was first published on Asian Correspondent In a recent Facebook update, Senior Minister of State for the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts...
View ArticlePhotos from a day tour. | #spuddings
Places visited: Caerphilly Castle, St Fagans: National History Museum and Cardiff Bay. Everything was awesome but I caught the flu. The post Photos from a day tour. | #spuddings appeared first on...
View ArticleCampaigning against animal vivisection | #spuddings
I love my university. I love my school (Cardiff JOMEC FTW). But there are some things about the university that I don’t like so much. I wrote the following not too long after I arrived in Cardiff. It’s...
View ArticleTwenty-four. | #spuddings
The older you get, the more likely it is that your birthday becomes just another day. People would really pull out all the stops for you when you were a kid, buying cakes and organising parties, but...
View ArticleThere’s staying “resolute”, then there’s just being stubborn. | #spuddings
Fear, fear and more fear. Then a loud parroting of the government’s line. That’s all you need. Only rookies need evidence. That’s the impression one gets from today’s Straits Times editorial on the...
View ArticleMDA’s licensing scheme: So many questions, no real answers
Towards the end of Channel NewsAsia’s Talking Point show on the new MDA licensing regime, a caller asked Acting Minister of Manpower, Tan Chuan-jin, to confirm on air that blogs would not be subjected...
View ArticleThis “gay lifestyle” bullshit needs to stop
When it comes to talking about LGBT rights, there’s a frame of reference that is simultaneously confusing and enraging. I’m referring to the concept of the “homosexual lifestyle”, or the “gay...
View ArticleI don’t have kids. There is no “yet”.
There’s a curious breed of people out there in the world. They have no particular natural habitat; they simply live among the rest of society, generally inconspicuous and well-camouflaged. You can pass...
View ArticleThe price of remorse | #spuddings
I first met Amos Yee in April, not long after he had first been charged. I was pretty curious: who was this brash boy with the drawl, who had posted the eight-minute rant I couldn’t bear to watch till...
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