Open season on Lim Guan Eng

APRIL 6 — Umno has apparently declared “open season” on Lim Guan Eng. That they have been stalking their favourite target for years, even well before he came into prominence, is ...

50 years on, returning to my university

AUG 19 — I have just returned from a pilgrimage of sorts to my old stamping ground, Hobart, Tasmania where I went to university. It was exactly 49 years ago that I arrived to take ...

Arrest the blighters

APRIL 4 — If I had been peddling pornographic material in a public place, let alone organise a public viewing of such filth for the titillation of the nation’s select group of ...

Now every crook can fight corruption

APRIL 1 — In late 2006 as I was completing my term of office as a Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York, I received an unexpected invitation ...

Mahathir’s legacy: An open verdict?

JAN 18 — Let us disabuse ourselves, quickly, of the notion that 2011 would be an improvement over last year. Nothing so far has given us any reason for optimism. Just look at the ...