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  • OPINION

    Commitments of US navy mounting up

    Oped, Published on 11/11/2023

    » In the American game of baseball, the defending team must cover all bases; first, second and third. No matter how good and fast a player is, one person "can't cover all bases," as the expression goes. Cover one, and the ball would be hit to another. You need three players to cover first, second and third base. The best and most competent player can't successfully cover all three dispersed bases. That's common sense.

  • OPINION

    US now pulled back to refocus on Middle East

    News, Peter Apps, Published on 14/10/2023

    » Early on Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after Hamas launched the largest assault against Israel in more than 50 years, an unknown object or force wrenched aside and damaged the key undersea gas pipeline and fibre-optic cable linking Finland and Estonia beneath the Baltic Sea.

  • OPINION

    Mushrooms make their presence felt

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/10/2022

    » The most exciting news of the week is that mushrooms were found growing on a seat of an active Bangkok bus. In addition to carrying passengers on the No 82 route from Phra Pradaeng to Phahurat, the bus featured a battered seat covered in newly sprouted mushrooms. Alas, the seat has now been replaced by spoilsport officials following complaints from passengers unimpressed by sitting next to a seat covered in fast-growing fungi.

  • OPINION

    In defence of the Yank chimney-sweep

    Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 20/03/2022

    » A Londoner who lives in Bangkok has made a spirited defence of Dick Van Dyke's much-maligned cockney accent as a chimney-sweep in Mary Poppins, which was mentioned in last week's column.

  • OPINION

    Not every hero wears a cape

    News, Postbag, Published on 16/01/2022

    » Re: "Covid hysteria", (PostBag, Jan 12) and "Heedless manhunt, Omicron marches on", (PostBag, Jan 10).

  • OPINION

    Possibly the worst job in the world?

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 01/11/2020

    » On the day Americans went to the polls four years ago the Miami Herald ran what must have been its shortest-ever editorial which simply read: "Her, Not Him, Enough Said". In light of what ensued, it must have been tempting to blame the proof-readers and come out the next day with: "Correction: Him Not Her."

  • OPINION

    In the wake of the not so great debate

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/10/2020

    » While there might have been an element of entertainment in a perverse sort of way watching the US presidential candidates slagging one another off like squabbling children, these politicians still have a lot to learn in the art of insulting behaviour.

  • OPINION

    Stand up, 'People'

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/09/2020

    » Re: "Time to elect city governor", (Editorial, Sept 4).

  • OPINION

    Stop the shameless and unjust system

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 17/08/2020

    » What do you think of the saying, "In Thailand today, prisons are only built for the purpose of imprisoning the poor"?

  • OPINION

    Leave Yingluck be

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018

    » Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.

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