365 days later

THERE is a French saying: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It is attributed to Alphonse Karr.

As I recall the events that have transformed Malaysia’s political landscape over the past year, it would have been unthinkable 366 days before. Who would have thought that a former Prime Minister would be in and out of courts or that the Finance Minister would be Lim Guan Eng?