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S1E59: PM Wong’s NDR speech lacks ‘bitter medicine’: Jeremy Tan

How Singapore can truly be a ‘we first’ society.

Synopsis: Join Natasha Ann Zachariah at The Usual Place every Thursday as she unpacks the latest current affairs with guests.

“It’s not ‘I’ or ‘me’. It’s ‘we’. To keep Singapore going, we must be a ‘we first’ society.”

This was Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s rallying call to strengthen the Singaporean Spirit – to put the welfare of the community ahead of individual interest.

It came towards the end of his National Day Rally address on Aug 17, perhaps…

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