Without social security or Socso contributions, this group struggles to make ends meet

Leaders should be chosen on merit, efficacy and intelligence

Resuming ferry services for cars cheaper, more viable; change provokes rethink of heavily criticised PTMP

We cannot hope to share our prosperity if we cannot first learn to share our society

Among main concerns are issues affecting young doctors and increasing healthcare costs

Concerted effort needed to make medicines more affordable for public, private healthcare

Handouts and campaigning aplenty, even as daily cases and deaths remain high

Need to have mature discussion, avoid politicking via news headlines

Discriminatory policies and institutionalised hatred will only further break the country; we must work to stay true to our culture of unity

It remains to be seen if leaders of the Land Below the Wind can finally achieve common ground

Denying women the right to know more about their own bodies the real dishonour here

We must recognise the limitations underserved communities have had to live with as a reflection of our failure to consider their circumstances

Datuk Dennis Ignatius writes an illuminating, absorbing, engrossing account of ex-PM in Paradise Lost: Mahathir and the End of Hope