COMMENT Leaders of PKR and PAS met yesterday, ostensibly to chart new ground for a second try at forming an opposition alliance.

The first try at opposition unity - Pakatan Rakyat - expired unceremoniously in June after a seven-year existence its supporters felt was proof that politics is the theatre of the possible though sceptics scoffed that it was evidence, rather, that a quest for power can foster thinking that ideological differences ought to matter little when facing a common adversary.