COMMENT Parliament’s speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia is a sorely conflicted person: he wants to be a fair speaker but is beholden to the ruling BN and that undercuts his aspirations as the Lower House’s impartial arbiter.

In philosophical parlance, Pandikar has an existential problem, but it's not like Hamlet’s (“To be or not to be”).

The Shakespearean prince was a captive of indecision. Pandikar isn’t a prisoner of irresolution - he comes down on the side of the powers-that-be.