Thursday, 15 January 2026

Category: Column

A timely reminder

When you make the right decision, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks. – Caroline Kennedy, US ambassador to Australia GE15 is just around

Compulsive politics

Politics have no relations to morals. – Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian diplomat It is an inexorable fact that one of the serious penalties the concerned citizenry

Finding a lost puppy

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. – Woodrow

Malaya first mentality must go

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. – P. J. O’Rourke, American libertarian political satirist

I hope you dance

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. –

My 2,000km flight to Long Nawang

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in