32 posts
A 2008 fuel-policy post working through production, import, subsidy and budget figures while questioning how government fuel-support costs were being presented.
A 2008 explainer-style post surveying competing explanations for rising global oil prices, including supply, demand, currency movements and political claims.
A 2008 media-and-Parliament commentary on restrictions placed on journalists in the parliamentary lobby and the press response to those limits.
A satirical 2008 post about fuel-price increases, regional price comparisons, subsidy arguments and the public debate surrounding government policy.
A 2008 social-policy commentary criticising a Kota Bharu workplace dress rule involving lipstick and high heels and the moral arguments used to justify it.
A 2008 follow-up to an earlier fuel-subsidy post, discussing statements and documents cited in the debate over how fuel subsidies appeared in government accounts and budgets.
There are possible plans underway to apply to the Oxford and Webster to include a new word for their 2009 dictionary: badawi [baa-daa-wee] (noun): To start something full of promise but end in disappointment, failure and/or disaster. Eg: ‘I’m trusting you to perform this task well; don’t do a badawi, ok?’ ‘Whatever I do, I…