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The big issue: The end of the beginning
Alan Dawson, Published on 18/05/2014
» If you start with "Prime Minister" Yingluck and she becomes "caretaker Prime Minister" Yingluck who turns into "acting caretaker Prime Minister" Niwattumrong, what is the person after him called?
The big issue: Tick-tock
Alan Dawson, Published on 04/05/2014
» For six months, it has been a death match, but politics has suddenly taken on the air of a death watch. In a matter of days, the actions of caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be judged by two bodies generally seen as critics or worse, and the top man at either one can literally throw her out of office as easy as snapping his fingers. Easier.
The BIG STORY: Happy New Year?
Alan Dawson, Published on 20/04/2014
» The end of Songkran brought the urgency right back to politics. But not for long. The ear-splitting, street-bursting, epithet-howling weekend mobs didn't happen, as the judges and investigators suddenly came over all coy, and delayed all the important stuff — maybe for a few days, maybe for longer.
The Big Issue: Will she or won't she?
Alan Dawson, Published on 05/04/2014
» Yingluck Shinawatra will mark her third Songkran as prime minister next Sunday. Sane bookies are not betting on a fourth. In fact, you can find pretty good odds today she won't be in office to celebrate her third Visakha Bucha Day, little more than a month away.
The Big Issue: The Men in Black
Alan Dawson, Published on 29/03/2014
» The most important question in politics is now pretty obvious to everyone. Does Suthep Thaugsuban or Jatuporn Prompan have the bigger one?
The Big Issue: What happens next?
Alan Dawson, Published on 22/03/2014
» Remember the election last month? No, of course you don't. That was a trick question. There was no election last month, a flat fact written in stone by six wise men after a Friday morning meeting.
The big issue: Vendetta
Alan Dawson, Published on 09/03/2014
» The crime that shocked the South has turned out to be a vendetta, as suspected — but with a twist that involves the army, the nation and violent southern gangs in what could be the most dangerous family feud in the country's history.
Who needs press freedom if it's rated by the RSF?
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/02/2014
» The annual World Press Freedom Index came from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) recently, and far too many people took it seriously.
The Big Story: In case of emergency
Alan Dawson, Published on 25/01/2014
» Let's say you are the head of a Thai government, faced with violence and possible insurgency, and you need, really need the single best mind inside the brain of the highly respected person who could be your white knight. Who would you pick? No-brainer, right?
The big issue: Kamnan Thep hits the streets
Alan Dawson, Published on 01/12/2013
» Anti-government leader Suthep Thaugsuban attracted a huge crowd last Sunday to his "million-man rally", the biggest political protest since the 2005 heyday of the pre-coup yellow shirts.