COMMENT So Dr Mahathir Mohamad's memoirs are finally out. It's has a fetching title, ‘A Doctor in the House’.

The former prime minister would have made a good sub-editor. His previous book ‘Blogging to Unblock’ also sported a catchy title.  

Months after retiring from the premiership in late October 2003, Mahathir was said to be making good progress on his memoirs.

Given his age - Mahathir was an advanced septuagenarian on his retirement - and speed of composition, his publishers were on course to launch his memoirs within two years of his leaving office.

But distractions, like the effort of turfing out his apparently refractory successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and the foray into bolstering Malay rights group Perkasa, must have slowed Mahathir...