COMMENT These days the spectacle of Utusan Malaysia holding out a red bandana to draw out the bull of Malay nationalism would be disquieting if it weren’t also abjectly comic in its failure to achieve that end.

This is the kind of failure that ought to induce self-corrective embarrassment, but this former sentinel of Malay nationalism persists in taking leave of its responsibilities as a serious newspaper, which is to inform its readership with fact and enlighten with insight...