Hadi has checkmated Anwar

Anwar is desperate. He wants Khalid out after Hari Raya because around that same time Selangor will finalise and sign the water agreements with the federal government. And once that is done there…

The SPLASH issue explained

The historical dividends of RM725.4mil paid until the end of 2012 was not only sufficient for Splash shareholders to recover their initial RM400mil, but also left them with a return of RM325.4mil,…

The final countdown

However, if Khalid refuses to resign then neither Anwar nor the Sultan can do anything about it. The Sultan cannot sack Khalid. And neither can Anwar. Khalid will have to resign and if he does not…

The politicising of the MH17 tragedy

But don’t you think it is in bad taste that he used the plane tragedies and the loss of 537 lives as political ammunition for his ‘oust Najib’ campaign? And what is Anwar going to tell his party…

Can Malays accept Chinese rule?

In short, what the Chinese keep telling the Malays is that without Umno and the many government policies that allow special treatment for the incapable and stupid Malays, all the useless and…

How I would bring Najib down

Now, if I wanted to bring down Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak I would do exactly what they did to Tunku Abdul Rahman almost 50 years ago. And what I see in Malaysia today is a repeat of what I saw…

20 years too late

Yes, as Ani Arope alleges, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was very much behind the push to create these IPPs and privatise the generation of power. But then Anwar Ibrahim and Samy Vellu,…

Malaysians love to hate

What the voters should focus on is just one thing. The candidates represent their coalition. In fact, they do not even represent their individual parties, Gerakan or DAP. They represent Barisan…

Umno’s idiotic information chief

That is why I say Najib should summon Ahmad Maslan for an audience and scold him good and proper and after that replace him with a new information chief. And if Najib cannot use words like…

Lost in translation

We do not have to agree with an Islamic state or Islamic laws. However, to deny Islamists their democratic right and to disparage Islam, the Muslims and the Malays just because you disagree with…

Islamism: the rise of political Islam

What we are seeing is not Islam. What we are seeing is Islamism. Islamism is not a religion like Islam. Islamism is political Islam. And Islamism is opposed to secularism, democracy, and all those…

How to fight Hudud

But how do you tell orthodox or fundamentalist Muslims to stop talking in the language of God and instead talk in the language of the law, the constitution, civil liberties, human rights, etc? I…