Bridget Welsh

The day the Harapan government died

COMMENT | With different interests abounding, there is also no guarantee of stability with the new Muafakat coalition…

COMMENT | If parties behave like Umno, then they might as well vote for Umno.

Kimanis – an Umno revival?

COMMENT | While Warisan will have the advantage, it is not as clear a favourite as it would appear.

Kimanis by-election - Umno’s last hurrah in Sabah?

Finding the positive - Malaysia's last decade, Pt II

COMMENT | The past decade reaffirmed the power of ordinary citizens – to kick out those seen to violate the nation’s ideals.

Getting caught in the negative - Malaysia 2019, Pt I

COMMENT | Race relations are worryingly worsening and spawned a baneful sentiment of cynicism and acrimony.

BJ Habibie, Indonesia’s renaissance leader

OBITUARY | At 17 months, his was the shortest presidency but arguably one of the most impactful.

COMMENT | Many who voted for Harapan feel used, taken for granted, and … increasingly vulnerable.

Maju Malaysia? Anger, distrust and cynicism

COMMENT | Of all the political players, Harapan has the most to lose in lowering the voting age.

Lowering the voting age - the right risk for Harapan

COMMENT | The party did not hold onto as much of the electorate as it hoped.

PAS’ post-GE14 waiting game

COMMENT | How the country’s political landscape has, and is, changing.

New Malaysia boldly go

Rantau redemption

COMMENT | The result of the Rantau by-election will speak of Harapan's ability to hold onto the base it secured a year ago.

The Semenyih rebuke

COMMENT | Harapan has been so focused on politicking that it lost track of the reasons it was put into office.

Weaker political parties in Semenyih by-election

COMMENT | It is a fact that all political parties, in power and in the opposition, are facing erosion of political trust.

COMMENT | Harapan’s biggest mistake is that it adopted the practices and assumptions of BN.

‘Old Malaysia’ in Cameron Highlands

Hopes and heroes: Malaysia in 2018

COMMENT | Breaks with the past are possible and the power of ordinary Malaysians is real.

Harapan report card: Glass half full or half empty?

COMMENT | While there’re moments of frustration, Harapan shows it can work together.

Cautions from Sungai Kandis

COMMENT | Harapan lost an opportunity in Sg Kandis to lay out its accomplishments and agenda, to imprint its own narrative for ‘New Malaysia’.

A turning point for Terengganu?

COMMENT | Will PAS learn the lessons associated with GE14 and avoid its mistakes of the past?

'New' or 'old' Sabah in New Malaysia?

COMMENT | The promise of a new Sabah is real, despite the legacies of old.