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
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…
30 April 2026
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…
24 April 2026
What Sabah Needs Are Leaders Who Can Think, Even Without PhD
Someone recently pointed out that Iran’s senior leadership is, almost without exception, highly educated. Engineers. Jurists. Surgeons. People who spent…
16 April 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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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
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Monopoly Is Just Socialism for the Rich
Here is a fact about the board game Monopoly that everyone has been told and nobody has thought about. It was invented by a woman...
22 April 2026
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We Broke Education and Called It Progress
The Fight Nobody Should Be Having There is something deeply revealing about the Malaysian education debate, and what it reveals is that there is no...
20 April 2026
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What Sabah Needs Are Leaders Who Can Think, Even Without PhD
Someone recently pointed out that Iran’s senior leadership is, almost without exception, highly educated. Engineers. Jurists. Surgeons. People who spent years being forced to construct...
16 April 2026