COMMENT Are cracks beginning to appear in the politico-civil service complex that holds up the edifice of the Umno-dominated BN government?

The politico-civil service complex (corresponding to the military-industrial complex of President Eisenhower’s description that referred to the web of business interests that impact governance in the United States) is the interface of interests that connect Umno’s top brass with the top tier of the civil service that’s supposed to run the country’s administrative machinery.

Nobody pretends anymore that the latter is a professional entity, independent of...