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Premised upon my last three columns on patriotism, a small debate ensued on Facebook about whom or what defines good or great leadership. This column is my response to that query, but I would like to address it from a perspective of an RMC Old Putera, the alumni of the Royal Military College (RMC); our […]

It is said that history is written by winners. In the case of Malaysian history; it often looks like it is written by poor students of federation history; who are technically the losers or winners, depending who is looking at their glass of water. So, is this glass half-full versus half-empty merely conjecture and not […]

I attended a book launch on the ‘The End of Umno?’ because my good friend Saifuddin Abdullah wrote the foreword and invited me to attend. Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, the veteran Umno member and the best prime minister we never had; gave the keynote and launch address. The book has four chapters contributed by four authors, […]

In my last column I argued, premised upon the speech by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah during a book launch, about how privatisation of public assets and functions led to almost complete and systemic corruption of Umno. This column will focus on the other Umno person who spoke at the launch of Bridget Welsh’s book ‘The End of Umno?’ […]

My last two columns focussed on how corruption has become an embedded value and culture of Umno, premised on the admission and critique by two important Umno stalwarts. This column will focus on how and why we must move beyond this form of moral and financial corruption within Umno if we want to become a […]

Through my last three columns I argued from the testimonies of insiders that Umno is corrupt to the core and it has already been badly infected with the corruption disease. The current leadership and its corruption has become too obvious for the world to ignore and we have now hit the headlines of global newspapers, […]

The 3 million-strong Christian communities in Malaysia should only support the amendments to Act 355 if and when agreed by at least a two-thirds majority of MPs in Parliament. It must also be tabled as a public policy matter by the prime minister of Malaysia. Consistency with the Federal Constitution of 1963 must be our […]

Is double-speak natural to human beings and the only way to become a true-blue politician worth his/her weight? An Umno deputy minister and an equally idiocratic deputy speaker of Parliament could not see anything wrong with that MP’s wrong speech and impure motives about another MP. The victim of this abuse was a lady Member […]

I write in English and cannot seek to address concerns of most in Malay community because frankly I cannot completely understand their irrational emotionality. I have been writing for 12 years now, and almost weekly in Malaysiakini. I chose then and will therefore continue only in English. Others are invited to translate, if needed. So far, […]

Scriptures say that the love of money, and not having money itself, is the beginning of all evil. This lesson has become obvious for all to see from the political corruption of leadership in Malaysia. Where there is greed; hate will also prevail! Therefore, we are today the favourite whipping boy of the world in […]