The Students Are Paying a Debt They Did Not Incur
Fifty marched in 2024, forty in 2025, twenty last weekend, while online audiences grew into the thousands. The emptying street measures what corruption has become in Sabah: a weapon.
6 July 2026
The Burkina Faso Question: What If Nobody Is Coming to Save Us?
In September 2022, a 34-year-old army captain took power in one of the poorest countries on earth, a landlocked state…
15 June 2026
Revealed: The Gap Between What Sabah Is Promised and What It Is Paid
When the RM12.02bn development ceiling for Sabah was announced under the 13th Malaysia Plan this spring, it arrived garlanded in…
11 June 2026
What Is Subsidiarity?
What this is Subsidiarity is the principle that decisions belong at the lowest level of organisation genuinely competent to take…
8 June 2026
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Sabah in-Depth is an independent publication applying distributist and subsidiarity frameworks to Sabahan politics and economics. We analyse power structures, resource extraction, and constitutional questions without ideological packaging. Rigorous analysis for readers who think in systems, not slogans.
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The Students Are Paying a Debt They Did Not Incur
Fifty marched in 2024, forty in 2025, twenty last weekend, while online audiences grew into the thousands. The emptying street measures what corruption has become…
6 July 2026
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The Burkina Faso Question: What If Nobody Is Coming to Save Us?
In September 2022, a 34-year-old army captain took power in one of the poorest countries on earth, a landlocked state with no functioning security guarantee,...
15 June 2026
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Revealed: The Gap Between What Sabah Is Promised and What It Is Paid
When the RM12.02bn development ceiling for Sabah was announced under the 13th Malaysia Plan this spring, it arrived garlanded in superlatives. The largest development allocation...
11 June 2026
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What Is Subsidiarity?
What this is Subsidiarity is the principle that decisions belong at the lowest level of organisation genuinely competent to take them. The family governs family...
8 June 2026
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What Is a GLC and Who Pays for It?
What this is A Government-Linked Corporation, or GLC, is a company in which a government holds a controlling stake, whether directly or through a state...
1 June 2026
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Sarawak Built a Bridge. Sabah Sold a Forest.
Sarawak opened the Batang Lupar Bridge last week. The bridge cost RM900 million, spans 4.8 kilometres, was completed on schedule, and was financed entirely from...
22 May 2026
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The Case Against Democracy
The Voting That Changed Nothing Sabah has been voting since 1967. It has held state elections, federal elections, by-elections, and the occasional snap election called...
30 April 2026
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The Peace That Never Was
There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that is not quite lying. It is more refined than lying. It is the careful, deliberate selection...
24 April 2026