Thank you for publishing the extensive Abdullah Ahmad two-part interview . I find the reports fair and balanced.

However, I would like to make a few corrections in published 'Q&A', which recorded the full transcript of the interview. During the interview, I said this: "But I am at the same time not embraced by Najib (Abdul Razak)." It was inadvertently transcribed as "But I am at the same time not impressed by Najib".

Similarly, I said that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi "can be a man with sterner stuff". This, however, was reported as him being a "man with 'external' stuff".

In addition, I have served all five prime ministers in my long political career, not four as stated in the report, and I began by journalism career in the British-owned Straits Times in Kuala Lumpur, not Malay Mail .