Archives 2010

Abbreviations are explained in the column on the right of the screen.

Month	Title, etc		Relevance
May 2010	Issue work permits to sex workers - denial that a sex industry exists is foolish, instead regulate it		Pol, Soc
May 2010	Reform Party unveils six election candidates - with potential but relatively unknown, thus lots more work ahead, including on the party's stand over the gay issue		Pol, Hom
May 2010	Mother-tongue conservatives voice existential fears - as expected, an emotional debate has erupted, but the debate may be missing the point		Pol, Soc, Oth [edu]
May 2010	Effects of recent electoral changes - we can afford to be bolder with electoral reform without risking instability		Pol
May 2010	Entry to clubs "on the basis of ... testicles" - furious at being humiliated by a Clarke Quay club, transgender women organise to fight discrimination		Soc, Hom
May 2010	Sacking of discriminatory counsellor upheld by UK court - a judge pronounces strongly on what freedom of religion does not mean		Law, Rel, Hom
May 2010	An elastic band here, a clothes peg there, part 2 - PAP and Nominated MPs argue against extending the NCMP scheme with some of the worst arguments I've heard in a while		Pol
May 2010	An elastic band here, a clothes peg there, part 1 - more arbitrary patching done to our parliamentary electoral system		Pol
Apr 2010	Singapore homophobia takes world stage - Archbishop John Chew now leads the global fight to discriminate against gay people in the Anglican Communion		Rel, Hom
Apr 2010	At the feet of gods - two embarrassing fiascoes beg serious questions about how our public service officers go about their jobs		Pol, Soc, Med
Apr 2010	Singapore's political system a one-legged stool - Lee Hsien Loong in justifying why he is the prime minister avoids saying it's because he won an election		Pol
Apr 2010	Where religious freedom ends - Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng pussy-foots around the issue of religious zealotry and defensiveness		Pol, Rel
Mar 2010	Breeding a subsidy mentality in housing - why are housing subsidies given to nearly everybody? Isn't that fiscally irresponsible in the long run?		Pol
Mar 2010	Foreign funding a necessary antidote in authoritarian states - time to reexamine our allergic reaction to foreign funding for causes, including political ones		Pol, Soc, Kno
Jan 2010	My letter to the Censorship Review Committee 2009 - the CRC wanted public feedback, so I gave them my strongly held views		Pol, Med, Hom
Jan 2010	Should Singapore's Home Minister be thrown into a Vietnamese jail? - trading in Vietnamese brides is human trafficking; the government abets it		Pol, Law, Med
Jan 2010	Sex bombs and other wayward self-destructions - al Qaeda exploited Western society's prudishness to design a bomb for Abdulmutallab		Law, Soc, Hum, Hom
Jan 2010	Mixed-marriage babies now given race choice - the move only highlights how absurd trying to record race is		Pol, Kno