The following post was written on my personal blog, the day before I enlisted into National Service (NS), a two year conscription military service every male citizen of Singapore has to go through. Exactly two years later, and recently out…
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Police Brutality in Kenya Violates Human Rights
Suppressing protests by use of force does not attain peace but suppressed violence. Truth is, the latter is more detrimental than the former. Contrary to the belief in the minds of many, peaceful demonstrations as a tool for passing a…
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IFLRY Online Meeting on South Africa
IFLRY Online is IFLRY’s new initiative to allow liberals from all over the world to interact with each other more online. In that spirit, IFLRY Vice President Nickolas Pagonakis is organising regular online seminars, in which different people in the…
Why the EU-Turkey Deal Violates Fundamental Rights
Wars and conflicts have forced more people to flee their countries than any time since World War II. In Europe, more than a million migrants arrived in 2015, sparking a ‘migration crisis’ as countries struggled to cope with the numbers.…
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IFLRY Online Meeting on Venezuela
IFLRY Online is IFLRY’s new initiative to allow liberals from all over the world to interact with each other more online. In that spirit, IFLRY Vice President Nickolas Pagonakis is organising regular online seminars, in which different people in the…
At Long Last… The Lebanese Prepare for Parliamentary Elections
Last October, the Lebanese parliament elected a new president ending a two-and-a-half-year power vacuum that had crippled the functioning of the government. Just over six months later, Lebanon was drifting into yet another political crisis that could leave the country…
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The Lack of Young People’s Representation Is a Problem For Democracy
A prerequisite for democracy is the freedom of speech and expression. Even though this is widely acknowledged, we sometimes forget the whole picture. The representation of all groups in a society is not only important for the conversation climate and…
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Thou Shalt Not Forbid Voluntary Exchange
This should be the first commandment of every regulator. Or at the very least, forbidding should not be their first step. All over the world, many governments which have imposed a ban on sharing economy do not respect this rule. They…
What the Lee Family Dispute Says About Singapore’s Politics
Singapore has been hit by political scandal. Yes, that clean, quiet, stable, protest-free city state; the one that’s supposedly good for business because there’s no political unrest and no independent trade unions. That Singapore. Yet, if you listened to the…
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If You Were Catalan..?
While travelling abroad and attending international events, I’ve encountered a range of different views about the Catalan independence process. Many are well-informed and sympathetic, however a few compare Catalonia’s with other struggles for independence – that may seem similar at…