What's needed is a forward-looking Parliament with highest standards

I agree with deputy opinion editor Bhavan Jaipragas on the need to keep our politics clean and above board (Keeping fear and loathing out of Singapore's politics, March 27).

- Yaacob Ibrahim

How other societies have become so divisive to affect families and community relations is something which we as a small nation should avoid at all costs. We may have our differences, political or otherwise, but we only have this one small nation to share with everyone.

The tone and tenor of our society must be about empathy and caring for each other. I see this on display whenever I take the train or bus for my engagements. Some see me as elderly (yes, I am pushing 70 this year) and offer me their seat, which I politely decline.

I am not the only beneficiary of such good gestures.