COMMENT Not that it matters very much now, but S Samy Vellu's blaming Dr Mahathir Mohamad for his defeat in his former bailiwick of Sungai Siput in the last general election is interesting for what it discloses of the revisionist impulse.

Also, the timing of Samy's blame-fixing for his defeat draws attention to who would be the BN candidate to wrest the seat back from the clutches of the giant-slaying incumbent, Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj.

Experienced politicians do not normally engage in fault-assigning retrospectives without a motive; Samy is clearly up to something...