COMMENT | The numbers game

COMMENT | What’s in a number?

In Malaysian politics, it’s fluid. A transient distraction that has little or nothing to do with the reality behind the news/scenes.

You can put as much reliance on it, and money at the numbers shops as the number that came in a dream or on a mangled car by the side of the highway.

Just over a week ago, heat-struck or herb-smoked dreamers were coyly teasing the possibility of a high 120s number that will be in the ranks of Pakatan Harapan soon.

That feverish hallucination was dashed by the 107 count that Anwar Ibrahim said was the tally of the coalition.

107? Muhyiddin Yassin’s majority of two increased to...