I was shocked and dismayed, while in the US, to read that \”32 English bibles have been seized by the customs department.\” Although they have now been released, this \”new habit of the heart\” raises some very key and important questions about how ordinary government officials see their role in public life. Is it the …
On Feb 13, my two boys came back from somewhere and I asked them if they heard that the general election has been called, and Parliament dissolved? They both said yes, but then they asked, \”But, why did the PM lie about it?\” Yes, why did the PM lie about it? In fact, my 17-year-old …
Lord Acton said, \”Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\” Over the years, I have learnt that this is in fact an absolute statement and no ordinary human is really exempted from it. We saw it in 10 years with Republican rule in America and we saw the same thing in Australia. Those with absolute …
I have three politicians, I consider my heroes. The first is the late Tan Sri Dr Tan Chee Khoon, father of the now retiring MP for Segambut. The father, like the son, always spoke the truth, always spoke in love and always spoke with grace and hope. For the father’s long and unflinching service to …
‘The Japan that Can Say No’ was a book co-written by Sony chairman Akio Morita and politician Shintaro Ishihara during Japan\’s rise as an economic power-house in 1989. As a sequel many years later he and Dr Mahathir Mohamed co-wrote a book called, ‘The Asia that Can Say No!’ Of course, they were talking about …
If what Raja Petra wrote in Malaysia Today before the elections is true, an Umno vice-president had said, “Even God could not sink Umno!” The article began with the true story about the infamous Titanic from which the quote about Umno must have been derived. ‘This ship is unsinkable, even God Himself can’t sink it!’ screamed a …
The core issues of the general election have received a little more focused nuance with the formation of new state governments. In the process of the identification and definition of the requisite political leadership for the three or four state governments, core and unresolved issues among the new parties in government have become obvious. The …
