The Backdoor Boys’ Betrayal: Parliament deserves better


“YOU know how he was for scheming and things. He was involved in most of the plots against himself, that was how he ran things. He enjoyed it.”Supreme Grand Master Lupine Wonse on Lord Havelock Vetinari, in Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad has repeated a lot of things since becoming Malaysia’s seventh Prime Minister.

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