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Retro Movie Review: Logan
Hollywood likes nothing better than to be stuck in a profitable rut, and history shows that, having stumbled across a money-making genre,...
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Oct 11, 20179 min read


Turn Bullets Into Hope
Another day, another massacre in an American city at the hands of a disturbed individual armed with what most other countries would...
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Oct 4, 20176 min read


Travelling Between Worlds: Stephen Hawking
British cosmologist and physicist Stephen Hawking believes that “however bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and...
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Oct 1, 20176 min read


Trump on the Couch
During his failed 2016 campaign for the Republican nomination, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush predicted that, if elected, Donald Trump...
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Sep 21, 201712 min read


Remembering a True Lady
In the early hours of Tuesday morning last week, a lady of 81 passed quietly from this world to the next. Over the course of...
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Sep 13, 20175 min read


The Lessons of History
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." -- George Santayana Between Roppongi and Akasaka -- two of the ritziest...
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Aug 26, 201717 min read


Coloring Outside the Lines
Steve Jobs was a Renaissance man of many talents. But what set him apart from other technology titans was his artistic sense. He...
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Aug 17, 20178 min read


The Vertical Kampong: Thoughts On SG 52
The air is heavy, not just because this is Singapore and humidity is forever present. Standing fans whirr gallantly, offering fleeting...
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Aug 8, 201710 min read


Retro Book Review: A Beautiful Mind
John Nash's life story should not have ended the way it did, on an innocuous, anonymous New Jersey turnpike in 2015. He and his wife,...
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Jul 28, 20178 min read


Rage Against the Machine: The Strange Journey of Ai Weiwei
The recent passing of dissident and former 1989 Tianamen Square student leader Liu Xiaobo has arguably left a yawning gap in that the...
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Jul 21, 201717 min read


Freedom Day: America at 241
The black and white footage flickers intermittently, grainy with age, occasionally shifting out of focus. Large auditorium doors swing...
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Jul 7, 20179 min read


O Canada:150 Years and Counting
On July 1st, Canada marked 150 years since its Confederation as a nation. Beyond this date milestone, there is a very real cause for...
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Jul 2, 20178 min read


The Asian Powder Keg: North Korea
There has been much discussion in the both the mainstream media and the blogosphere as to what a Second Korean War might entail, much of...
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Jun 28, 20177 min read


In the Wings: Mike Pence's Quiet Audition
A few months ago, during the most vicious exchanges in the 2016 US presidential election, a popular refrain among those dismayed by both...
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Jun 23, 20178 min read


Rue Britania
The United Kingdom has seen its fair share of societal turmoil this last year. There was David Cameron’s shock Brexit vote, his...
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Jun 19, 20175 min read


The Persistence of Hope: Vincent Van Gogh
“And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” --1 Corinthians 13:13 As Don McLean sang in 1971,...
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Jun 12, 20176 min read


The British Election: Eat Your Hat
A long time ago in an era far far away men wore hats. And today, if formal headgear were still in fashion, there would be many a pundit...
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Jun 9, 20174 min read


Madam President
Socio-political, economic, academic and media elites love to throw the word “disruption” around with such abandon one would think they...
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Jun 7, 20178 min read


An Innocent Abroad: Trump's Trip
Little matters more to Donald Trump, the living brand-turned-American president, than pomp and imagery. Trump staffed his government (at...
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Jun 1, 20178 min read
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