![]() The bicentennial of 2019 celebrated the arrival of the city-state’s ‘founding father’, Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, whose name graces countless schools and institutions, the famous hotel, and the world’s largest flower. Streets and roads bear the names of some of the most savage grandees of the empire – Havelock, Neill, Outram. A mong the ‘new nations’ that became independent in the 1960s, Singapore makes the least pretence of a break with colonial rule.
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