COMMENT | Most Malaysians in my middle-class, English-speaking, largely non-Malay bubble are in a state of quiet despair.

We recognise that after decades of a rotting system, there is a myriad of problems and yet even when the solutions seem palpable and tangible, they are not addressed properly.

Progress is crawling and limping along instead of taking a great leap forward.

Worse still, even after the momentous changes of the last few years, there is no...