ANTIDOTE Mad dogs and Anglophile lawyers go out in the midday sun, I was thinking to myself, when I joined the crowd of between 2,000 and 3,000 men and women at Parliament House yesterday, demonstrating against the Peaceful Assembly Bill.

The anti-constitutional Bill is a proudly ironic name, in the same way that our Education Ministry is trying to misinform and brainwash our children, and our health minister is planning to deprive poor Malaysians of access to healthcare services under its 1Care insurance scam. The Justice Ministry has been abolished, presumably because the joke had worn thin.