Neil Khor

COMMENT Retracing the sorry tale of the BN's major Bersih bungle from militant silat warriors to Najib's final act of skipping town.

COMMENT The answer is not to cage your citizens but allow them to express themselves in an orderly fashion.

COMMENT The party has to renew itself if it wants to regain relevance and support from the electorate.

COMMENT MCA's threat to not participate in the government if it does not get support from the Chinese may backfire.

COMMENT It would pay to keep an eye on emerging issues linked to rapid urbanisation in the state across the South China Sea.

COMMENT Staying in power forever is an art. Most politicians live for the moment, and there is nothing more addictive than being in power.

COMMENT We can learn three lessons from the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia.

COMMENT If Malaysia is to work as a nation, we have to talk to each other and not at one another. We need to 'inter-logue'.

COMMENT We have lost touch with our own gut-feeling - our internal moral compass.

COMMENT Unlike other retired leaders, Lim kept his word and retired absolutely from politics, and never bad-mouthed his successors.

COMMENT A university is not a factory; it is a community dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.

COMMENT Its problems are a godsend to political rivals, and may even turn off a weary electorate unless it gets its act together.

COMMENT Why is Gerakan so moribund when the rest of Malaysia has moved closer to its own party ideals?

COMMENT By entering the political centre-stage, Mahathir is literally crowding out Najib Razak.

COMMENT Najib must find the courage and the tenacity to return to the policies of his father and break with the unsustainable 'free market' enterprise.

COMMENT Malaysians have evolved beyond the narrow confines of their ethnic identity, but the BN obviously has not, as the Umno-MCA public spat shows. A very real problem for the coalition?

COMMENT It's time to look beyond race-based political parties and look for new directions if we want to achieve ‘1Malaysia' in its most inclusive sense.

COMMENT Freeing the state from federal control, politicking, layers of red-tape and indiscriminate development, is beneficial to the whole country.

COMMENT If it is not careful, the BN may find itself in the unenviable position of having promised too much and delivered too little.

COMMENT But is the opposition in fit condition to take control of the middle ground that the BN has vacated?

COMMENT The revenue could be put to good use. Besides, our taxes are already tainted by non-halal income as it is.

COMMENT Perhaps if we had been ruled by the French, we might not be so fixated with titles, medals and abbreviations. 

COMMENT Five reasons why the BN grip on urban voters is slowly but surely slipping, as recent by-elections reveal.

COMMENT Pakatan has to win hearts and minds like never before if it wants to win the Hulu Selangor by-election.