Just like that ancient Greek each time Najib sits down to eat he can feel the sword hanging by its thin thread directly over his head.  And the eventual consequences will be identical.  For Najib the proverbial sword is the reluctant agreement by Singapore to slow the pace of the criminal enquiries into money laundering […]

Prime and Finance Minister Najib is forced by a Saudi Ministerial denial, to claim that his hundred  million dollar hand out did not, after all, come from the late King Abdullah nor from any Saudi government funds and, by implication, that Saudi Arabia is not funding “moderate” Islamic governments in the Far East. Well, what’s

If you live in a country where a top government dare to lie through the thick skin of his teeth about RM2.6 billion donated into his own personal bank account “seems about right,” and the people don’t revolt, you know you are in a country run by country full of idiots. If you live in

With Malaysia mired in a huge political, financial and criminal scandal it needs to be asked what the Head of State is doing. Or not doing.  He has the unfettered power to act to lance the political boil but has not done so. This inactivity raises questions outside the question of using constitutional powers for

The ringgit, the national currency of Malaysia, has been on a downward trend for a long time; a trend that has in recent days accelerated. Why? Part of the reason must be the collapse in the oil price and  of other commodities on which Malaysia relies for most of its foreign income (and its ability

In the history of all nations there are seminal moments when their whole future is determined by what happens at that moment and whether there is one or more persons who, by acting, can change the course of events for the better; or, by inaction, ruin the country’s future. For example, in 1940, one man,