COMMENT | Earlier this week, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim told the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha that radical change will only prompt anger and frustration, which is why reforms failed in many parts of Europe.

He further claimed that the basic flaw of “elitist-democratic ideals” is that “elites have all the answers without even interacting with the masses”.

I can see why failure in change management can lead to failure in changes. But the problem with truism or motherhood statements is that they often become useless by lumping everything together and obstructing the examination of variations in details.

To make his truism useful, I have a question for the prime minister...