When a woman is raped, who is responsible? An ostensibly simple question, but ‘responsible’ has many meanings, and supporters of SlutWalk seem to use different definitions. The inconsistencies of SlutWalk betray a greater crisis: the way we selectively fight for our beliefs for issues we care about more deeply, while pretending the rest don’t exist.

Singapore is not and will not become London. But even safe and secure Singapore should have something to learn from London’s dimming light.

There has never really been a global recovery since 2008, only a big and desperate gamble to spend our way out. But it’s not just about the money, money, money

HDB, CPF, PSLE and LKY: few nations do acronyms as well as Singapore. Why acronyms thrive, and why they refuse to die

…and every election for another half-century. Three reasons behind the persistent success of one of the world’s most long-ruling parties

Our government takes pains to stress the separation of powers, but in reality there are far too few truly effective checks and balances on Parliament and the Cabinet. In a one-party democracy, even one whose government gets most other things right, that is cause for concern.

We’re told that the PAP’s leadership renewal brings “new faces” and “fresh blood”. Is this really good for Singapore’s political future? Is it fair play for new candidates? Or is it more of the same?

You would expect me to be the kind of person to like and support a candidate like Ms Tin Pei Ling. But I don’t. What I’d like to see, but don’t, is some evidence – any evidence! – that the candidate now vying for my vote actually has any of her purported merits.

Multi-racialism coerces Singaporeans to accept racial identities they have already shed. Policy needs to move with society, not lag behind it. Yet deluding ourselves that race is no longer an issue is dangerously out of step with reality. Is there a compromise?

Homosexuality is broadly rejected by Christian churches as being an affront to Christ and a sin in the Bible. Where we went wrong, how the Church can heal, and why homosexuality must be accepted.

By telling Singaporeans that there will, regardless of how the opposition performs in the elections, be nine opposition MPs in the next Parliament, the People’s Action Party (PAP) has effectively rendered elections meaningless.

Fairytales have their own opinions on the biggest issue in economic justice: what is a fair distribution of resources? The arguments of the two most important political philosophers of the 20th century, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, can be seen, with uncanny resemblance, in the classic Grimm fairytales, Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin.

We are here to talk about a chocolate factory. Not just any chocolate factory—the chocolate factory. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.

There is nothing inherently wrong with propaganda. But Singapore’s intrepid propaganda machine may well become the victim of its own success.

The biggest problem with democracy is that we trust it, and think we are justified in doing so.

While some artists embrace the postmodern explosion of multimedia installations and genre-defying aesthetics, others choose to head down a more retrolicious path, dredging their mother’s prints from musty drawers to relive the flowerchild fashion of the sixties.

How can a pastor’s wife live in Hollywood Hill in L.A.? The recent investigation into City Harvest Church evoked strong responses. Big Religion and Big Finance may seem incompatible, but they can – and must – go together.

If you thought that fashion exists in a vacuum devoid of rationality, worshipped by a strange cult of deluded, hypnotized individuals, then you are probably right. And wrong.

It is ironic that while the need for environmental awareness has only been increasing in recent years, it is the lack of just that which now plagues our society.