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The enshittification of the internet and the rise of technofeudalism", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18867", "published_at": "2026-07-20T06:55:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879e-4547-708f-8a8b-676416e7e804", "title": "[3026] Elizabeth Pisani’s Indonesia Etc is a window to a more optimistic country", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18832", "published_at": "2026-07-08T06:45:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879e-4547-708f-8a8b-676417143706", "title": "[3025] Malaysia inches closer to high income status (but it is not the 2025 star…)", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18838", "published_at": "2026-07-02T07:00:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879e-4547-708f-8a8b-676417c4532e", "title": "[3024] Is Malaysia a developed economy now?", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18806", "published_at": "2026-06-19T08:09:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879e-4547-708f-8a8b-676417cc6484", "title": "[3023] Addressing the supply crisis requires a renewed democratic mandate", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18788", "published_at": "2026-06-04T04:43:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879e-4547-708f-8a8b-6764188d3e23", "title": "[3022] Fuel subsidies, Pakatan Harapan, spending cuts and political capital exhausted wastefully", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18777", "published_at": "2026-05-07T04:34:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb50-c282-7142-a955-78d859d1fa18", "title": "[3021] The River Road to China: recounting the 1866-1868 French expedition for the source of the Mekong", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18763", "published_at": "2026-04-23T06:25:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb50-c282-7142-a955-78d85a71384e", "title": "[3020] Our surpluses are a bargaining chip we should use to address the energy supply crisis", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18756", "published_at": "2026-04-01T06:37:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb50-c282-7142-a955-78d85b0c704a", "title": "[3019] Tracing the Middle East energy flows disruption throughout the Malaysian economy", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18745", "published_at": "2026-03-18T07:56:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb50-c282-7142-a955-78d85be970eb", "title": "[3018] Piketty and Sandel on creating a sense of belonging through progressive tax", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18736", "published_at": "2026-03-07T15:18:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb50-c282-7142-a955-78d85cc575f5", "title": "[3017] One day in Babel", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18718", "published_at": "2026-02-22T14:30:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb50-c282-7142-a955-78d85cf43018", "title": "[3016] Reading mechanically won’t do with Irene Sola’s When I Sing, Mountains Dance", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18712", "published_at": "2026-01-16T08:30:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb50-c282-7142-a955-78d85d6d9e3e", "title": "[3015] The MyKasih affair on New Year’s Eve", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18698", "published_at": "2025-12-31T13:36:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb50-c282-7142-a955-78d85d9f32d9", "title": "[3014] Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy and the limits of the market", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18672", 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"title": "[3009] Reviewing The Peasant Robbers of Kedah 1900-1929 and then a modern thought", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18598", "published_at": "2025-09-18T03:29:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb59-3609-7240-83e4-4687f67c2a2c", "title": "[3008] About those coconut trees in Kam Raslan’s Malayan Spy", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18583", "published_at": "2025-09-10T03:46:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb59-3609-7240-83e4-4687f6c60e90", "title": "[3007] Finance would be the Dutch disease in a 14-state Malaysia", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18557", "published_at": "2025-08-31T00:30:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb59-3609-7240-83e4-4687f6e36ed7", "title": "[3006] Reading Shih-Li Kow’s The Sum of Our Follies and being transported to Kuala Kangsar", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18546", "published_at": "2025-08-20T04:04:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb59-3609-7240-83e4-4687f71ee9e2", "title": "[3005] Reading Revolutionary Iran, or an appreciation for glossary", "url": 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"title": "[3000] When history is blurry: reading Patricia Crone’s Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18463", "published_at": "2025-05-09T14:29:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb61-62fc-7223-8aed-acd69fa381f9", "title": "[2999] The three shadows of the 2000s and an eulogy for Abdullah Ahmad Badawi", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18454", "published_at": "2025-04-19T06:48:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb61-62fc-7223-8aed-acd6a030e429", "title": "[2998] Reading Dina Zaman’s Malayland", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18446", "published_at": "2025-04-01T11:45:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb61-62fc-7223-8aed-acd6a0d393c5", "title": "[2997] The broken city walls of Mandalay", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18438", "published_at": "2025-03-29T08:35:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb61-62fc-7223-8aed-acd6a105e82c", "title": "[2996] Reading The Flash Boys ten years after purchase", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18431", "published_at": "2025-03-27T07:41:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb61-62fc-7223-8aed-acd6a1917267", "title": "[2995] Reading The Lady from Tel Aviv", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18411", "published_at": "2025-02-22T09:22:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb61-62fc-7223-8aed-acd6a1c017d0", "title": "[2994] Reviewing How Asia Works", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18398", "published_at": "2025-02-11T05:19:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb61-62fc-7223-8aed-acd6a28dbc1f", "title": "[2993] To enjoy Reversi, you mustn’t work too hard", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18367", "published_at": "2024-12-29T02:30:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb61-62fc-7223-8aed-acd6a36218f9", "title": "[2992] Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18358", "published_at": "2024-12-25T07:18:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb67-85a6-7144-9f8a-60f75c79ff4e", "title": "[2991] Malaysia’s 5G network: the search for the second-best solution has gone awry", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18340", "published_at": "2024-12-12T07:53:30+00:00" }, { "id": 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"2024-07-05T03:04:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb67-85a6-7144-9f8a-60f760801566", "title": "[2985] Malaysia’s EV policy risks running obsolete", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18241", "published_at": "2024-07-02T08:01:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb67-85a6-7144-9f8a-60f761072b93", "title": "[2984] A list of challenges for Malaysia", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18221", "published_at": "2024-06-26T07:18:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb67-85a6-7144-9f8a-60f761c3173b", "title": "[2983] Reading Chip War and some questions for Malaysia", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18207", "published_at": "2024-05-26T00:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb67-85a6-7144-9f8a-60f76291ceb4", "title": "[2982] Insufficient law enforcement as a symptom of fiscal pressures", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18198", "published_at": "2024-04-01T08:41:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-eb5e-7057-9edd-3a7c2be34628", "title": "[2981] Reading, listening and watching The Three-Body Problem", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18191", "published_at": "2024-03-24T05:38:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-eb5e-7057-9edd-3a7c2be95958", "title": "[2980] Reading Rashid Khalidi’s The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18171", "published_at": "2024-02-29T01:30:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-eb5e-7057-9edd-3a7c2c259c23", "title": "[2979] My readings in 2023", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18161", "published_at": "2023-12-31T00:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-eb5e-7057-9edd-3a7c2cf6d83f", "title": "[2978] Shall we read The End of the Nineteen-Nineties?", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18145", "published_at": "2023-12-13T14:36:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-eb5e-7057-9edd-3a7c2d95c4fa", "title": "[2977] How I learned to stop worrying and love Salman Rushdie’s Victory City", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=18133", "published_at": "2023-08-21T14:37:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-eb5e-7057-9edd-3a7c2e41b5cd", "title": "[2976] Guess the 2Q23 Malaysian GDP growth", "url": 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"[2961] Umno’s calls for stability is a racketeering slogan", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17981", "published_at": "2022-10-31T03:32:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b214364c0", "title": "[2960] Election time: my preferred transport policies", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17970", "published_at": "2022-10-26T08:23:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b2211863d", "title": "[2959] Budget 2023 and Undi Banjir are examples of BN irresponsibility", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17965", "published_at": "2022-10-17T07:31:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b22b16e87", "title": "[2958] Reviewing We Are Marching Now", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17958", "published_at": "2022-10-14T08:57:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b236ac097", "title": "[2957] Pakatan Harapan should avoid kitchen sink manifesto", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17945", "published_at": "2022-09-26T04:41:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b23e85991", "title": "[2956] Why does sending Najib to prison feel so empty so soon?", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17928", "published_at": "2022-08-24T06:36:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b240cea76", "title": "[2955] Reviewing The Republic of Beliefs", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17907", "published_at": "2022-07-25T01:00:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b2497b478", "title": "[2954] The frustrating read that is Notes to the Prime Minister", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17882", "published_at": "2022-06-13T09:38:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b25313383", "title": "[2953] In Kampung Baru issue, PH supporters need to develop greater capacity for empathy", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17857", "published_at": "2022-04-17T08:08:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-6a87-7128-a31c-846b2586f704", "title": "[2952] When did dates become popular among Muslim Malaysians?", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17836", "published_at": "2022-04-06T04:07:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a09563ae92", "title": "[2951] Politics of prices is counter-productive", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17805", "published_at": "2022-01-31T08:05:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a0960f032f", "title": "[2950] Too tame for our own good", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17796", "published_at": "2022-01-20T03:41:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a096577b68", "title": "[2949] Misaligned powers, incentives between the federal regulator and state authorities contributed to the 2021 great Malaysian flooding", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17787", "published_at": "2021-12-29T05:39:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a096b82b3a", "title": "[2948] Government money is best used for actual spending and investing, not replenishing EPF savings", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17767", "published_at": "2021-11-25T07:26:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a096ea7b39", "title": "[2947] Without carbon pricing, we are left with adaptive measures", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17736", "published_at": "2021-11-17T07:59:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a0975c13ac", "title": "[2946] Guess the 3Q21 Malaysian GDP growth", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17742", "published_at": "2021-11-11T05:12:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a097ace01d", "title": "[2945] Watching Foundation", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17726", "published_at": "2021-11-06T12:43:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a097ea107b", "title": "[2944] Run higher deficit, let the economy recover first", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17699", "published_at": "2021-09-16T03:57:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a098e02e36", "title": "[2943] From Afghanistan to Algeria", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17696", "published_at": "2021-09-13T01:30:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-b43b-704a-81f6-14a0991f5be9", "title": "[2942] How’s your book?", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17687", "published_at": "2021-09-04T10:06:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6ae18f0a1", "title": "[2941] Ismail Sabri does not deserve 100-day honeymoon", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17669", "published_at": "2021-08-27T03:51:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6ae73c770", "title": "[2940] Immediate fiscal agenda for the new (old) government", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17663", "published_at": "2021-08-26T06:32:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6ae8349cc", "title": "[2939] A unity government is a chance to rebuild trust among Malaysians", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17657", "published_at": "2021-08-20T04:31:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6af5bcda7", "title": "[2938] From political to personal", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17641", "published_at": "2021-07-25T02:00:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6af5feacc", "title": "[2937] Premature fiscal consolidation influences our vaccination strategy adversely", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17621", "published_at": "2021-06-12T07:32:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6af65ae9e", "title": "[2936] Latest government Covid-19 spending plan is ‘dasar cukup makan’", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17599", "published_at": "2021-06-01T03:23:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6afa4890f", "title": "[2935] From BCG to Covid-19 vaccine", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17591", "published_at": "2021-05-28T10:32:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6b0874d5d", "title": "[2934] Hindsight is 2020, myopia is 2021", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17581", "published_at": "2021-05-24T02:34:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6b11d4c37", "title": "[2933] Testing", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17578", "published_at": "2021-05-19T10:41:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-f897-72ee-9c35-99b6b13b8e39", "title": "[2932] Guess the 1Q21 Malaysian GDP growth", "url": "https://maddruid.com/?p=17555", "published_at": "2021-05-07T08:21:49+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

[3031] Context-making and context-stealing while reading Augustine of Hippo’s Confessionsoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
[3030] The idea of constant interpretation of holy text in Karen Armstrong’s The Bible: The Biographyoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
[3029] Overemphasizing AI in explaining Malaysia’s second quarter 2026 growthoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
[3028] The magic of 1515: what if Malacca had survived 1511?original ↗
14 Aug 2026
[3027] The enshittification of the internet and the rise of technofeudalismoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
[3026] Elizabeth Pisani’s Indonesia Etc is a window to a more optimistic countryoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
[3025] Malaysia inches closer to high income status (but it is not the 2025 star…)original ↗
2 Jul 2026
[3024] Is Malaysia a developed economy now?original ↗
19 Jun 2026
[3023] Addressing the supply crisis requires a renewed democratic mandateoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
[3022] Fuel subsidies, Pakatan Harapan, spending cuts and political capital exhausted wastefullyoriginal ↗
7 May 2026
[3021] The River Road to China: recounting the 1866-1868 French expedition for the source of the Mekongoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
[3020] Our surpluses are a bargaining chip we should use to address the energy supply crisisoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2026
[3019] Tracing the Middle East energy flows disruption throughout the Malaysian economyoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2026
[3018] Piketty and Sandel on creating a sense of belonging through progressive taxoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2026
[3017] One day in Babeloriginal ↗
22 Feb 2026
[3016] Reading mechanically won’t do with Irene Sola’s When I Sing, Mountains Danceoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2026

2025

[3015] The MyKasih affair on New Year’s Eveoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2025
[3014] Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy and the limits of the marketoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2025
[3013] A talk to celebrate the second anniversary of The End of the Nineteen-Ninetiesoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2025
[3012] The contemporary relevance of Syed Hussein Alatas’s Intellectuals in Developing Societiesoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2025
[3011] Mornings in Jenin and Palestinian narrative in literatureoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2025
[3010] Reviewing Abundance and thinking about the abundance agendaoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2025
[3009] Reviewing The Peasant Robbers of Kedah 1900-1929 and then a modern thoughtoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2025
[3008] About those coconut trees in Kam Raslan’s Malayan Spyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2025
[3007] Finance would be the Dutch disease in a 14-state Malaysiaoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2025
[3006] Reading Shih-Li Kow’s The Sum of Our Follies and being transported to Kuala Kangsaroriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
[3005] Reading Revolutionary Iran, or an appreciation for glossaryoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2025
[3004] Expanding the tax base requires rationalization, sequential approach and public buy-inoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2025
[3003] Reading Gertrude Stein’s Paris Franceoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2025
[3002] Reading George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia or… “Nak PN ke?”original ↗
16 Jun 2025
[3001] The tension between popularity and values in political partiesoriginal ↗
29 May 2025
[3000] When history is blurry: reading Patricia Crone’s Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islamoriginal ↗
9 May 2025
[2999] The three shadows of the 2000s and an eulogy for Abdullah Ahmad Badawioriginal ↗
19 Apr 2025
[2998] Reading Dina Zaman’s Malaylandoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2025
[2997] The broken city walls of Mandalayoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2025
[2996] Reading The Flash Boys ten years after purchaseoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2025
[2995] Reading The Lady from Tel Avivoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2025
[2994] Reviewing How Asia Worksoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2025

2024

[2993] To enjoy Reversi, you mustn’t work too hardoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2024
[2992] Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Messageoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2024
[2991] Malaysia’s 5G network: the search for the second-best solution has gone awryoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2024
[2990] Malaysia’s GDP advance estimates: outdated consensus, errors and institutional transparencyoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024
[2989] Eroding our commons will erode our togethernessoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2024
[2988] Malaysia’s 2024 sweet spot for growthoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2024
[2987] Outsiders, disruptions and mainstreamingoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2024
[2986] Maybe it was Klosterman’s The Ninetiesoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
[2985] Malaysia’s EV policy risks running obsoleteoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2024
[2984] A list of challenges for Malaysiaoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2024
[2983] Reading Chip War and some questions for Malaysiaoriginal ↗
26 May 2024
[2982] Insufficient law enforcement as a symptom of fiscal pressuresoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2024
[2981] Reading, listening and watching The Three-Body Problemoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2024
[2980] Reading Rashid Khalidi’s The Hundred Years’ War on Palestineoriginal ↗
29 Feb 2024

2023

[2979] My readings in 2023original ↗
31 Dec 2023
[2978] Shall we read The End of the Nineteen-Nineties?original ↗
13 Dec 2023
[2977] How I learned to stop worrying and love Salman Rushdie’s Victory Cityoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2023
[2976] Guess the 2Q23 Malaysian GDP growthoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2023
[2975] Do not blame Muda by too muchoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2023
[2974] Watching Oppenheimeroriginal ↗
9 Aug 2023
[2973] Harapan must not let Pakatan pussies speak for the coalitionoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2023
[2972] Writing interruptedoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2023
[2971] Of Imaginur and Vanilla Skyoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2023
[2970] Politics of living costs and the inevitable language of austerityoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2023
[2969] First Love as unfulfilled human potentialoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2023

2022

[2968] Back in Ann Arbor, just for a momentoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2022
[2967] Replaying First Love, over and over againoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2022
[2966] A short history of soft-budget constraint in Malaysia, and the challenge the Anwar administration facesoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2022
[2965] Anwar Ibrahim and Pakatan Harapan are a means to an endoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2022
[2964] Guess the 3Q22 Malaysian GDP growthoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2022
[2963] Is inflation the reason behind BNM hikes, at a time when the output gap is big?original ↗
4 Nov 2022
[2962] 2022 manifesto represents progress in PH policymakingoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2022
[2961] Umno’s calls for stability is a racketeering sloganoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2022
[2960] Election time: my preferred transport policiesoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2022
[2959] Budget 2023 and Undi Banjir are examples of BN irresponsibilityoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2022
[2958] Reviewing We Are Marching Noworiginal ↗
14 Oct 2022
[2957] Pakatan Harapan should avoid kitchen sink manifestooriginal ↗
26 Sept 2022
[2956] Why does sending Najib to prison feel so empty so soon?original ↗
24 Aug 2022
[2955] Reviewing The Republic of Beliefsoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2022
[2954] The frustrating read that is Notes to the Prime Ministeroriginal ↗
13 Jun 2022
[2953] In Kampung Baru issue, PH supporters need to develop greater capacity for empathyoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2022
[2952] When did dates become popular among Muslim Malaysians?original ↗
6 Apr 2022
[2951] Politics of prices is counter-productiveoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2022
[2950] Too tame for our own goodoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2022

2021

[2949] Misaligned powers, incentives between the federal regulator and state authorities contributed to the 2021 great Malaysian floodingoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2021
[2948] Government money is best used for actual spending and investing, not replenishing EPF savingsoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2021
[2947] Without carbon pricing, we are left with adaptive measuresoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2021
[2946] Guess the 3Q21 Malaysian GDP growthoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2021
[2945] Watching Foundationoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2021
[2944] Run higher deficit, let the economy recover firstoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2021
[2943] From Afghanistan to Algeriaoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2021
[2942] How’s your book?original ↗
4 Sept 2021
[2941] Ismail Sabri does not deserve 100-day honeymoonoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2021
[2940] Immediate fiscal agenda for the new (old) governmentoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2021
[2939] A unity government is a chance to rebuild trust among Malaysiansoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2021
[2938] From political to personaloriginal ↗
25 Jul 2021
[2937] Premature fiscal consolidation influences our vaccination strategy adverselyoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2021
[2936] Latest government Covid-19 spending plan is ‘dasar cukup makan’original ↗
1 Jun 2021
[2935] From BCG to Covid-19 vaccineoriginal ↗
28 May 2021
[2934] Hindsight is 2020, myopia is 2021original ↗
24 May 2021
[2933] Testingoriginal ↗
19 May 2021
[2932] Guess the 1Q21 Malaysian GDP growthoriginal ↗
7 May 2021
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