Recent statements by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad bring to stark relief how the old guard may keep the country trapped in an unending cycle of adversarial politics.

AS we transition from the movement control order (MCO) to the conditional MCO, it looks like we are also transitioning from a short-lived ceasefire back into the full on political war that began with the Sheraton Move.

While we search for sustainable solutions for this issue, we should not be blinded to basic human compassion and empathy.

Deep, systemic political and economic problems are being laid bare.

Restricting movements sometimes creates more crowding, and greater risk of infection. Is that what we want?

We need to overhaul our democracy, or others will always control our fate.

Breaking days of silence in which he kept millions of Malaysians in suspense, interim Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad finally addressed the nation and gave some hint as to what political future he was trying to build.

The Westminster mockery of democracy doesn’t even work for our former colonial masters in Westminster, so why on earth would it work for us?

DEMOCRACY has been betrayed.Malaysia has been betrayed.We – the rakyat – have all been betrayed.

THE political secretary of a senior Pakatan Harapan leader recently commented on how the coalition was losing the social media war, and how Umno was successfully using the simple message that Pakatan was insidiously dominated by one race to great effect.

I HAVE great respect for Lim Kit Siang. His contributions to the nation are innumerable, and his commitment to a better Malaysia is both inspiring and admirable.