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Lord Jeffrey Archer former Conservative MP and deputy chairman In January 1994, the day after board members at Anglia TV were notified of a buy out bid for the company, the former deputy Conservative party chairman, Lord Archer, rang his stockbrokers and purchased 50,000 shares, placing them unusually in the name of a Kurdish businessman…
The tradition of resigning immediately in the face of tricky allegations exists not only because it is considered honourable and treated as such, but it is also pragmatic. The Zahawi case could not be clearer in that when the press raised questions about his off-shore company, which appeared to owe tax on the UK sale…
Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, drew the short straw as last weekend’s TV spokesman for the Conservatives, resulting in a series of car crash interviews as he attempted to defend his former PM – discovered to have proffered top public jobs to donors who sorted his cash flow crises – and also the short-lived chancellor and…
Najib has embarked on a fresh attempt to contest his criminal conviction over the SRC case, despite already losing his final appeal in the apex Supreme Court in Malaysia. He has lost at every stage in this case, and on every count relating to seven charges of theft and criminal breach of trust, with consistent…
The Sultans of Malaysia are well known for their enthusiastic engagement in business activities, particularly through family members, which are undertaken alongside their powerful decision making roles. It makes for a huge advantage when seeking a licence or contract, of course, to have as one of the shareholders in the enterprise someone who holds a…
An embarrassing matter is being reported from a UK court case involving Malaysia’s former King and the current Sultan of Kelantan, Muhammad V. His third wife, the Russian born Rihana Oksana Gorbatenko, was discarded by the sultan in 2019, shortly after she had given birth to his only known son who appears to have likewise been discarded…
Leaders of PAS have continued to outdo themselves in hurling insults and accusations of sinfulness against others: alleging, for example that Jews, Christians and Chinese have been the source of corrupt practice in Malaysia. Yet, the record of this ‘Holy Party’ is becoming clearer by the day as probes into the country’s parlous present finances…
Having initially denied the matter, the Conservative hierarchy have now acknowledged their appointment of a billionaire from Egypt, Mohamed Mansour, to be the new ‘Senior Treasurer’ of the party. Mansour is an Egyptian born businessman who was a minister in the government of Hosni Mubarak, a President who wielded dictatorial powers over Egypt for three…
GPS exists to keep the status quo in Sarawak, as established by the Ya’kub/Taib family dictatorship from the 1970s till this day. For this reason the current chief minister, Abang Jo, initially and instinctively rejected an alliance with the reforming, anti-corruption PH coalition which received most votes in the election (and which he had also…
A lengthy video is being circulated online round KL in which two self-styled ‘American geo-political analysts’ attack the new Malaysian PM for being allegedly ‘anti-China’ and a tool of ‘US imperialism’. Part of the rambling attack on Anwar by these relative unknowns consists of denials that the previous BN government had been corrupt or that the…
This week the UK Ministry of Justice and the legal regulator, the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA), signalled major support for tighter regulations on law firms and for tougher legislation to control abusive litigation against the media and against freedom of speech. On Tuesday at the second Anti-SLAPP Conference in London the SRA published a public…
Consequential constitutional monarchs know well that their dignity and longevity relies on remaining well above the common fray. Yet, in Malaysia right now the dangers for royalty of slipping into the political arena are being spelt out, as an overtly well-meaning monarch who is trying to resolve a hung parliament (they happen) has become perilously…
The system for appointing a prime minister is that the King calls the most convincing candidate (the one who won the most seats) and invites him to attempt to form a government, which is then tested in Parliament by a public vote of MPs. If that person fails then the baton is passed to the…
As Malaysia digests the results of its hung election, of whom the most stunning beneficiary has been the PAS Islamic party, most of the party leaders have played their cards close to their chests. Both PH and PN claim (which can’t both be true) that they have secured the support of a majority of MPs….
It appears to have dawned on those who feel entitled to govern that voters can be unforgiving of coups, betrayals, political horse-trading, office-mongering, incompetence, bullying, disappearing billions and, above all, relentless infighting whilst ordinary people suffer. Far from being the cunning ploy anticipated, the monsoon rains have started to threaten a wash-out of the incumbent…
According to sources, the eve of election momentum in favour of the Anwar Ibrahim led Pakistan Harapan coalition has been recognised by the incumbent coalition parties, leaving them scrambling for solutions. Once again the sub-text is ‘anything but Anwar’ and once again the game-plan that has emerged will be to encourage an abuse of the…
Could Malaysia’s long-term opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, emerge as the country’s equivalent to the victorious Joe Biden in this weekend’s up-coming election? It has started to look possible. Once again thwarted, following victory at the last election, by a coup coalition made up of his own defectors and the losing parties, he had till recently…
Jaws dropped today as a High Court judge in Kuala Lumpur refused to allow prosecutors to freeze the return of assets, which he said were not in his mind sufficiently proven to have been stolen, pending the appeal that has been brought against that judgement. We are talking about a staggering RM80 million in loose…
GPS is a party dominated by Muslims in a Christian state. For decades this cabal of powerful families have abused the levers of power to drain the rich resources of Sarawak and indeed Malaysia into their own pockets, so they will do almost anything to keep control at election time. Barge of beer headed for…
Brigadier General Date Lau Kong Cheng knows a lot about defence procurement having acted as a consultant following his long career as a fighter pilot. This week he has gone public over what he says is yet another defence contract stitch up after months of complaints that went to the very top of government but…