What’s fragile and makes you cry?


State-level politics in Malaysia are now highly complicated by federal level alliances, not to mention those always power-hungry beings known as politicians. — 123rf.com

Glass Onion is both a 1968 song by the Beatles and a murder mystery that was released on Netflix in September 2022. They both have layers of complexity and create a lot of confusion, but at their core they are ultimately something quite simple – much like the political shenanigans happening in Malaysia’s state governments right now.

Over the first few weeks of January 2023, the Sabah state government has threatened to collapse, then assured the country of its stability, and eventually did collapse, only for everyone to rise up at the end asking, “What collapse?”

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