COMMENT | We all want Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government to succeed. I have said many times before that for reform-minded Malaysians, there is no plan B, no other leader to fall back on other than Anwar. For now, at least, he is our last best hope for change.

Changing the legacy of the past and making structural changes may take time but there is no reason why the government cannot start acting upon its ideals and modelling good governance going forward.

Anwar (above, right) has taken some steps in this direction (a more transparent tender system, for example) but has not been consistent in other areas.

It is disheartening to see, for example, the government remain ambivalent in the face of the scurrilous attacks on the judiciary including by a member of Anwar’s own cabinet.

Is it too much to expect the prime minister and other party leaders to come out and unequivocally say that such attacks against the judiciary are unacceptable and must be stopped...