for singapore's foreign minister, continuing in the commonwealth is also about furthering opportunity. to him, singaporean history isn't a story of dominion. we have no baggage. we're not going to re—litigate the past. we acknowledge the past. we give credit for the institutions that we inherited. we admire british understatement. we believe even our current attributes of being pragmatic, sensible, reasonable... you know, it also reflects that shared history. it's pragmatism that allows singapore to wear its colonial past so lightly. this luxury hotel used to be the british military headquarters, far east command, built on top of a hill in case