Chris Lydgate

Chris Lydgate was born in London, and educated at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA. He spent eighteen months in Singapore as a freelance reporter in 1997 and 1998, during which time he covered the Jeyaretnam saga for several publications. He has written about Singapore for The Times of London, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Economist, Newsweek, and Asiaweek. He is currently a staff writer with Willamette Week in Portland. This is his first book.

Books

• Lee's Law: how Singapore crushes dissent (Author)
  

  Lee's Law is a case study of the perils of dissent in Sinagapore, as it traces what befell the country's most prominent opposition politician, JB Jeyaretnam.