We need to break the cycle decisively, not get caught in a cycle of ineffective half-measures and see-sawing numbers.

LET'S start with a summary of a recent controversy.

Taking the first step: Is the world broken because we can’t trust anyone? Or because we don’t trust anyone?

While politics remains obsessed with mudslinging, the rest of us must move forward.

IN a weekend full of quotable quotes coming from the Umno general assembly, the quote that stuck most in my mind came from PAS secretary-general Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan:  "I may have lost someone who didn’t love me, but you lost someone who truly loved you."

Strong, formidable, convincing – until these words genuinely describe values, ideals, and principles, they will never describe numbers.

It looks like Umno is the kingmaker du jour.

MY original plan today was to write about the 330 people who were fined RM10,000 - a truly excessive sum.

Frontliners protect us. If people with money or power try to bully them, we must protect them.

THE breakup between Umno and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia has been likened to an “earthquake’ by some.

UMNO supreme council member Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani was recently quoted in the press saying; "I am always of the opinion that the single largest party must either lead the government or the opposition. You cannot be somewhere in between. When you are somewhere in between, it will create lots of political instability."

This month’s military coup in Myanmar shook the region.