Saturday, 17 January 2026

Category: Opinion

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The Chagos chokehold

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly. — David H. Hackworth, American military journalist In 1964, American and

King Ritchie goes AWOL

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist, ethologist and popular-science writer

HAVE SALT, WILL TRAVEL

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white. — Jay Rayner, award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster. For the average

No more hope in Pakatan Harapan

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right

Time to fly again, but not so soon

We have to take care of the cure that will make the problem worse no matter what. — Joe Biden, President-elect of the United States

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An aggravating agreement

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements. — Stephen Covey, American author Why does MA63 appear like a person sitting in a

Time to recognise Sarawak writers

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly —  they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley, writer As

Inevitable, sickening hospitals

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. –William Osler, Canadian physician and founding professor of John