COMMENT History is written by the victors, as the saying goes.

It has been a memorable three months and a tumultuous week for Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. The PM and Umno president looked tense in his Merdeka Day message on Sunday as well as at the Merdeka day parade, a day after the mammoth rally in Kuala Lumpur and worldwide.

Four months ago, when Najib was supposed to speak at a dialogue on 1MDB called Nothing2Hide, he did not turn up .