THE word par for the course may be borrowed from the game of golf. But it is also an un-written rule of politics that the whole goal of being in politics is to be in power.

In Malaysia, small as it is in terms of the size of its population, as compared to Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, or, even India and China, the people involved in the political arena has taken politics beyond the threshold of what can now be known as the never ending Games of Thrones. Who can be the next Prime Minister?