An analysis of George Osborne's devolution agenda and all-academies school policy in the budget he presented last week as a form of "market-fostering subsidiarity." Four legs good, two legs bad! — was the catchy maxim which first summarised the principles of the...
Lee Soo Tian
Malaysian Governance 101: How to Deal with an Impending Street Demonstration for Electoral Reform
In memory of the late Peter Falk, this article shall loosely mimic the format of the detective TV series Columbo. The answer is revealed from the beginning, and the issue to be dealt with is how do we get from not knowing much at all to knowing enough to come to a...
Where Even Liberal Politics Is Denied: The Case of Students in Malaysia
The recent case of the 'UKM Four' has triggered a new wave of public debate in Malaysia regarding the infamous Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (UUCA, or AUKU in Malaysian). This piece of legislation – passed at the height of student (semi-)radicalism in...