COMMENT The next time Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak gets up on his soapbox and sounds off on the change he has brought the country, he should check to see if among his ministerial cohort there's anyone propounding something at variance to what the skipper of the crew is saying.

Admittedly, this is not an easy thing to do when at the level of deputy prime minister, the point man has a second-in-command who often stakes out a position that is at an awkward angle to what he is proposing...