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Begging for a drink
News, Postbag, Published on 27/07/2019
» There is a shortage of fresh water. It happens most years and is far from unexpected. Where is the rainmaking initiative? Maybe the government has forgotten about it in the same way that they have forgotten everyone but themselves.
The last prime minister of the United Kingdom
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/07/2019
» It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom this week) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Mr Trump's bombastic self-promotion and Mr Johnson's self-deprecating, rather shambolic persona.
Political hodgepodge
News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2019
» Re: "The evolving Thai political fault lines", (Opinion, July 5). I must agree with everything Thitinan Pongsudhirak has pointed out. This military-led conservative coalition distrusts open politics and a fair, democratic game of elections, constitutions, and political parties and civil society.
The Brexit cult is proving dangerous for Britain
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/07/2019
» Oscar Wilde described fox-hunting as "the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible". Brexit may be similarly defined as the unhinged in pursuit of the infeasible.
Attack on Buddhism
News, Postbag, Published on 24/06/2019
» Re: "Southeast Asian authorities accused of 'trading' dissidents", (BP, June 22). It is indeed an unholy alliance if true as alleged that Thailand is cooperating with governments in Asean to suppress the practice of the wise teachings of the Buddha.
The Rules of idiocy
News, Postbag, Published on 23/06/2019
» Another totally useless committee has been established. This body, according to local media reports, is to lecture about the prevention of forest fires and indiscriminate burning.
Doubleplusgood?
News, Postbag, Published on 22/06/2019
» Re: "Orwellian Thailand", (PostBag, June 20).
Fed up with politics
News, Postbag, Published on 21/06/2019
» Re: "Same old politics stuck on repeat", (Commentary, June 20).
Orwellian Thailand
News, Postbag, Published on 20/06/2019
» Re: "Climate of fear must end", (Editorial, June 19).
Corruption endemic
News, Postbag, Published on 08/06/2019
» In my 30-plus years in Thailand, it has become quite obvious that corruption in its various forms has had a disastrous effect on the country through the failure of its institutions. Look up the effect of corruption on Google and immediately you will find that politicians, police and the judiciary are the institutions named as most affected. I have watched with disbelief as politicians, wealthy individuals and military leaders have broken laws, engaged in illegal activities and even caused deaths without any repercussions for their actions.