Lim Swee Say, the consummate joker

It seems the good MP is at it again

Sylvia Lim on GRCs

“Group Representation Constituencies can be chopped and changed; Member Constituencies can be…

RIP Michael Foot

“We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with…

Anti-Death Penalty in Singapore

One reader reflects on the Death Penalty situation in Singapore

No convincing reason to believe that the MDP works

TOC interviews Professor Michael Hor of NUS – an expert on criminal law, evidence and constitutional law – on his views of the Death Penalty

A moratorium is not an insult to national sovereignty

Leong Sze Wah suggests that the facts of whether mandatory state executions are beneficial or not should be fully analysed and debated

Crime and punishment

Michael Hwang says in 2008 that there is a moral limit to the law’s power to make an offender an example for others to fear

Singapore – highest income gap, 2nd highest prison population in the world

Singapore has the biggest income gap among 23 rich nations, says book

Who is the police supposed to protect?

But when a person is assaulted in public, especially by strangers, how…