Umar Mukhtar Tomorrow is D-day, the day when Selangorians will see if their constitutional monarch will accept PKR's and DAP's contention that a constitutional monarch is merely a ceremonial…

Boo Su-Lyn, Malay Mail Online As a feminist, I don't want the first woman mentri besar in Malaysia to be PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. Her appointment would not herald a…

Mungkin tidak rugi untuk PAS meneliti pengamatan dan analisa saya tentang “pasarannya" di kalangan bukan Muslim sebelum membuat keputusan sama ada untuk “menjentik” pengundi bukan Melayu dan…

Azmi Anshar, NST DATUK Seri Anwar Ibrahim might be anxiously fretting that the ground beneath his feet is sinking again, only that the déjà vu the opposition leader and unelected PKR supremo is…

Surekha A. Yadaf Often in the lift that deposits me on my flat’s floor, I am quizzed by curious neighbours and their ilk on my Singaporean-ness. “Where are you from girl?” “Singapore”…

Zurairi AR, The Star “The Sedition Act will not by itself eliminate sensitive matters. “The government realises how important it is to really understand the grievances and complaints of the…

It is difficult to believe that Khalid Ibrahim will settle in the nest that others have made for him. Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today The actors may have forgotten their lines, but the…

One Malaysia is truly a Many Malaysia. Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi, TMI When I was invited by my colleagues to deliver a talk to a group of final year architecture students at UiTM on the…

Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew Daily "Secret societies infiltrating the PPS?" Several members of the Penang "Voluntary Patrol Force" (I have put the terms within inverted commas in view of its…

Where is the supposed allowance for disagreement and discussion inside the opposition pact? Where are their supposed policies of tolerance and consensus, instead of this Umno-styled my way or the…

Khalid remained convinced his replacement can be anyone except Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (the nepotistic wife) or Azmin Ali (the blind royalist), PKR president and deputy president,…

If my party president wants to assume the leadership, then she has to ride her mandate and not just sit in the carriage waiting to reach her destination. Praba Ganesan, Malay Mail Online…

It seems some are happy to use the system when it works for them, but decry as traitors those who use the system in ways that do not benefit them. Nathaniel Tan, The Ant Daily Throughout the…

Azman Ujang UMNO, in power continuously since the country's independence, is now abuzz with polemics sparked off by its women wing chief's proposal for a fourth vice presidential post…

Shahrum Sayuti, NST WHAT transpired at Istana Bukit Kayangan yesterday was in contrast to the dramatic way PKR attempted to oust Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim from the menteri besar’s post.…

It looks like the Selangor political crisis is turning into a constitutional crisis. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today In defiance of a royal command—a titah—by the Sultan of Selangor,…

New Straits Times HAVING stirred the hornet’s nest, PKR is facing an embarrassing situation after putting its president in a right royal predicament. The party’s de facto head had insisted that…

Umar Mukhtar Except we don't know who will be fucking who for the tired electorate to witness!  But we have an idea of whom this boring x-rated soap opera will star. Let's examine the cast.…

Wong Mun Loong, The Malaysian Insider Like many Malaysians who crave a more open, democratic and participative society, I too rejoiced in seeing the rise of a more oppositional and democratic…

R. Nadeswaran, The Sun Daily IT was something that even a cleverly scripted itinerary would have caused the sequence of events to be played out. She was a member of the Board of the Women's…

Adat istiadat will be the guide to what will happen next. Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim had an audience with the Sultan of Selangor and indicated that in…

Mahathirism is long gone, and along with it, the glue that miraculously seamed together discarded and disoriented factions.  Raggie Jessy Once upon a time, there reigned an authoritarian who…

COMMENTARY BY THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER After taking nearly three weeks to decide who it supports as the Selangor menteri besar, PAS today did a volte-face and said it would leave it to the state…

Ahmad Mustapha Hassan, The Ant Daily Pakatan Rakyat came into being in 2008 consisting of three parties with very divergent goals. DAP was a long standing political party that was able to…

In the first place, why does Khalid need to listen to Anwar? Roslan Bistamam, Free Malaysia Today PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim said he is still good friends with Selangor MB Khalid…

The PKR congress this year was very much about projecting Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the party’s candidate for the Selangor Mentri Besar post. Joceline Tan, The Star IF one had…

If the glass slippers won't fit Wan Azizah or Azmin and there are no Cinderellas in DAP, will PAS come to the ball? Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today Last Friday night at the Chinese Assembly…

Umno leaders are wondering whether it is just straightforward criticism or if there is a  bigger agenda to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s open attack on the policies of Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.…

Amin Iskandar, TMI Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad walaupun sudah berusia masih lagi kuat kerana semangat perlawanannya yang tinggi. Sejak awal penglibatannya dalam politik, bekas perdana menteri itu…

Akil Yunus, The Star AFTER an action-packed few weeks, the Selangor Mentri Besar crisis has slipped into a brief lull as the battling characters await the return of the Sultan from an overseas…