Deep state, poor leadership & plain incompetence

December 6, 2019

Talk about the deep state – a state within a state, a covert, shadowy body of bureaucrats and power brokers …

Nothing special about this special envoy

While the whole country is preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic, backdoor Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has sneaked in another political appointment – PAS president Hadi Awang was made special envoy for the Middle East, replete with ministerial rank. Make no mistake; the appointment is nothing but a political sinecure designed to reward Hadi for supporting […]

Duds, duffers & doraemons

Did you catch our newly minted finance minister, the one with the reputation of being a financial whizz-kid, on Astro Awani recently? If you did, you would, no doubt, have been surprised by how little he seemed to know about the details of the much-touted stimulus package. He couldn’t even adequately explain where all the […]

Stop the politicking; work together

We are, as a nation, facing the biggest crisis we’ve ever faced. Thousands are sick, many are dying. The need for unity, at least unity of purpose, has never been greater. Yet we see our politicians playing the usual political games. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is quietly finding ways to punish Pakatan Harapan (PH) by […]

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Dennis Ignatius

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Daily Archives: December 6, 2019

Deep state, poor leadership & plain incompetence