I’ve been asked whether there was any official reply to my Open Letter to the Prime Minister which appeared many weeks ago on my website. No, there has been none. Reuters recently contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but they declined to comment.

Was I disappointed? Yes, very. In casting my latest political commentary in the rather provocative format of an open letter, I was hoping to elicit some response from the Prime Minister himself, especially on the very sensitive topic of the climate of fear and the absence of political liberties in Singapore. Whatever his response, it would have provided a useful starting point for discussion and debate among interested and concerned Singaporeans, on what I feel is a very important matter. Read more

To all those who responded to my article:

A big THANK YOU to all of you who took time and trouble to respond to my article ‘An Open Letter to the Prime Minister.’ Also a somewhat sheepish SORRY for having made you plough through reams of the stuff, much of which, as the newspaper editors in their rejection notes had told me, was nothing new. Actually, I had had no choice but to bring in most of the themes in my earlier articles (such as the ones on the out-of-bounds markers, and on the climate of fear), and knit them together into one major theme, in order to provide the full political backdrop for my culminating plea for political freedom. I really hope no future article of mine will have to be that long! Read more