Yes, quite right and I'm very hopeful. Dr M has gained a lot...

Yes, quite right and I'm very hopeful. Dr M has gained a lot from the Japanese; he'll reciprocate.

And Anwar certainly can't be seen in a corner alone with DAP - his own powerbase would evaporate.

When cast into the wilderness, Anwar's genius was to build a "stronger together" coalition of "the dispossessed", including ordinary Bumiputera battlers, against the obscenely corrupt fat cats of UMNO.

Remarkable; for a while Anwar even managed to hold the Islamist PAS and the DAP together in coalition.

Yeo's internet-driven facade of "youthful, hip, green, modern, western-globalist" attributes helped in so far as it draws focus away from the hard ground of competing communal interests - but her private interests and actions against Lynas are betraying all that.

It puts a strain on the coalition that neither Dr M or Anwar can afford.