The Betrayal That Brought Back UMNO
[1] It’s three strikes now – Sabah, Johor, Negeri Sembilan. The UMNO-PAS coalition is on a roll. If this trajectory …
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Johor Was Bersama’s Baptism, Not Its Burial
[1] Bersama was trashed in the Johor state election, losing its deposit in all 15 seats it contested. But that …
A Cheap Shot from Khairy
[1] Campaigning in Johor, Khairy Jamaluddin cried “Islamophobia” over Pakatan Harapan’s warning that a vote for BN could usher in …
Unhappy Alliances and Unfinished Nation-Building
[1] Malaysia’s politics has entered another period of uneasy flux. Across the aisle and within the government itself, alliances are …
Winning Non-Malay Votes: The Challenge for PAS
[1] There was a grudging consensus amongst Malay opposition parties who gathered recently to forge yet another lose coalition (Ikatan …
Between an unpopular government and an inept opposition
[1] The latest kerfuffle between PAS and Gerakan and the squabbling between PAS and Bersatu over who should lead are …
What the addendum issue says about Malaysia
[1] For months now, a purported addendum permitting former prime minister Najib Tun Razak to serve his sentence in his …
Do non-Malay voters matter?
[1] At the recent PAS muktamar, PAS leaders called for greater efforts to win non-Malay support. They even took the …
If not Anwar, who?
[1] One of the questions commonly thrown at those who are critical of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim – dubbed Anwar …
When politicians want to go to heaven
It was reported that UMNO’s sole assemblyman in Kelantan, Mohd Syahbuddin Hashim, voted along with the rest of the state legislature to …
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