This online brawl between Dr Lee Wei Ling (LWL) and Chief of Government Communications Janadas Devan (JD) does not seem to want to die down.

It's great for the rest of us who want some drama to make Monday go by quicker.

But first, a quick recap:

LWL, daughter of Lee Kuan Yew (LKY), announced on April Fools' Day that she would no longer write for The Straits Times (ST), citing a lack of freedom of speech.

Subsequently, LWL posted an update regarding former-ST editor Cheong Yip Seng's book "OB Markers".

She highlighted how JD had supposedly called Cheong "sly" for getting LKY to write a foreword for a book which would subsequently seem to criticise the late LKY. LWL wanted to use this example to highlight how Lee had not restricted freedom of speech.

JD then posted a comment on LWL's Facebook page outlining three points: 1) PM Lee Hsien Loong did not call Cheong to "scold him"; 2) Lee did not write a foreword, but a blurb for Cheong's book; 3) JD did not call Cheong "sly", this was LWL's characterisation of what happened.

The drama continues with more salt:

We thought that was the last we heard from both JD and LWL.

But LWL's claim for going through three Straits Times editors and coming to the conclusion that the editors have been instructed to edit out "sensitive issues"' must have rubbed JD the wrong way.

That was because JD was The Straits Times Review editor who first invited LWL to contribute to the paper.

JD posted a second comment on LWL's page, and this time with an added serving of salt.

He first addressed LWL as "a friend", but this was the only line that was friendly.

Here are some choice quotes that made us go:

Here are our favourite smackdowns delivered by JD:

"We are expected to believe she suffered so much oppression, writing for ST, that she willingly persisted with the experience over almost ten miserable years."

"Reading Wei Ling’s unedited writings was like sailing through a fog. The effort of turning her raw material into coherent articles -- that’s what I remember most about editing Wei Ling." #burn

"It beggars belief that she now presents herself as someone who was suppressed and silenced." #TheSaltIsReal

Here's the post in full:

LWL fights back

This spate just refuses to die.

20 minutes after JD's last post, LWL posted yet another update.

She started off by throwing some shade at JD's reading ability. And then she told him to "Do read carefully before you make a fuss"

Here's a gif before we show you LWL's latest post:

When will this fight among Singapore's intelligentsia abet? Who knows?

It's heartening to know that this pair of sexagenarians are settling their dispute the same way young millennials do - on the Internet and in front of everybody.

Top picture composed by Belmont Lay.

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