Imagine the Telegraph or Times having a similar lead story in the UK.

RECENT GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE WORKING WELL

or

CAMERON'S PLAN WORKING

It would just never happen. I'm not saying one is right and the other wrong, but the truth often lies between the two extremes. Singapore will hail failures as successes and the UK will hail successes as failures. How about calling a win a win, a fail a fail and getting on with our lives?