What Covid rule-breakers are trying to tell us
If he could, Dr Noor Hisham would choose not to appear in front of public. He dislikes being the center of attention, rejects the “hero” label, and he has not made a press conference in…
The surprising benefit of having the wrong government
Bill and Melinda Gates are no strangers to audacious goals. Their foundation’s website states that their mission was “fighting poverty, diseases, and inequity around the world”, arguably the three biggest problems of our time. With ample funding,…
The collective delusion of Muhyiddin’s Bersatu
It took Najib a long time to accept his defeat on 9 May 2018. On Malaysia’s longest night, the Election Commission’s snail-paced announcements were slow and painful, and UMNO’s fallen soldiers were invisible in the…
DAP’s Chinese debate is larger than its party
Very few people in this country would have the privilege of being handpicked by Dato’ Onn Jaafar to run as an election candidate. And no one but one woman could say that she has the…
The toxic birth of Malaysia’s B50
When his name was called, prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin took confident and slow steps up the stage to present his speech. The Dewan Bankuasi at Sabah’s State Administrative Centre was undoubtedly the grandest in the building, that was also the tallest…
In trying to appear strong, Zahid appeared weak
The UMNO General Assembly is an arena of superimposed masculinity. It is common to have delegates using the platform to shout out their beliefs, on the premise of representing the voices of the party grassroots,…
Two politicians saved by shame
In 1971, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a person with three names. For the first 20 years of his life, the recipient was known as Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, a son to a cashier…
Corruption is scariest without rules
How much money is enough to make you lie? Not much. Famous behavioural scientist, Dan Ariely, specialises in the study of worst human behaviours. He believes that given a chance, most humans would act worse than what you…
What Najib and MCA have in common
Everyone laughed when MCA announced it could start accepting non-Chinese into the party, but I wasn’t one of them. Granted, MCA is not accepting non-Chinese as full members; only associate members without voting rights. Many criticisms point to…
Now we have pride in defections
Defection is nothing new. In fact, it has become a fabric in our political sphere that we have come to anticipate and expect to happen. I remember, at the height of defections in March last…