Dr M extols the need to master English , it was reported on Monday, where former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad urged, "Don't let us be re-colonised".

Mahathir was educated in English, jousted with the "colonisation" project in Malay Dilemma (written in English) and appears reluctant to move on from his grotesque 1970 treatise.

He's still saying now that Malaysians have to master English so that there will be no "re-colonisation" of the country; so that we're not "invaded" again.