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Almost 10 years ago to the month, the National University of Singapore’s newspaper, The Ridge, published an interview with the late Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam. At that time, he was the Workers’ Party secretary-general and in Parliament as a non-constituency MP. This may be 10 years old, but some of the issues that he touched on [...]

My first memory of Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam is of him selling the Workers’ Party newspaper, The Hammer, at a neighbourhood market in Ang Mo Kio in the early 1980s. With his distinctive loud British-accented voice, looking like a serious man on an important mission, the then Workers’ Party secretary-general would call out: “The Hammer! Buy [...]