by CHERIAN GEORGE February 24th, 2012 The rebranding of Singapore’s most-read political blog – greeted almost instantly with defamation threats from members of the establishment – has sparked a debate over the wisdom of its…
by CHERIAN GEORGE February 22nd, 2012 TREmeritus has posted an apology to the Prime Minister, two days before the deadline his lawyers gave the site to avoid being sued for defamation. The formal apology –…
by CHERIAN GEORGE February 20th, 2012 TREMERITUS, BETTER KNOWN AS as the former Temasek Review, has been given until 24 February to comply with instructions from lawyers acting for the Prime Minister, failing which the…
by CHERIAN GEORGE February 16th, 2012 TREmeritus, the successor to Temasek Review, is taking tentative steps towards respectability, with an editor emerging from behind the website’s traditional curtain of anonymity to appear at a public…
by CHERIAN GEORGE January 17th, 2012 Edited extract of a presentation at the Institute of Policy Studies’ Singapore Perspectives 2012 conference, 16 January 2012. The government is convinced that making its presence felt in social…
by CHERIAN GEORGE December 24th, 2011 The Seng Han Thong controversy has produced a flash flood of protest in the midst of a climate already fouled by the SMRT debacle. Such was the interest in…
by CHERIAN GEORGE December 23rd, 2011 Singapore would have been a better place in March 1992 had The Online Citizen and its followers been around. That month, PAP backbencher Choo Wee Khiang stood up in…
by CHERIAN GEORGE December 22nd, 2011 Reading The Online Citizen’s sensational report on what a PAP MP said about Malay and Indian MRT drivers and then watching the video itself, I wondered how the website’s…
by CHERIAN GEORGE December 3rd, 2011 This article has been published in the Straits Times on 3 December 2011 and on my new website devoted to the topic of hate speech. Tweet
October 21st, 2011 Edited extract from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s speech during the debate on the President’s Address, 20 October 2011. For a PDF of the full speech, click here. It’s necessary and healthy…