Conservative m ps have argued that the u k. Needed to learn lessons from india, be more like india because british workers had become among the worst idlers in the world. But you write that the model that the torialit really hold in the highest esteem is sing pore. How did singapore manage these contradictions of post colonial sovereignty by becominga so called global city in the newly reconfigured capitalist world system? And then what does that economic political system and bregitir's enthusiasm for it re veal about conservative politics?"