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Please don't forget the unknown reindeer
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 18/12/2022
» As we hurtle into the festive season we will be hearing a lot of familiar songs associated with this time of the year. However, it's probably true that most of us can't remember more than a few lines of a song and even then don't get the words right.
End of a sorry saga for mushroom pickers
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/05/2019
» The best news of the week is that the mushroom-picking couple have been released from jail following a royal pardon by His Majesty the King. It is a most pleasant surprise and hopefully puts an end to a grim nine-year saga that reeked of social injustice from the very first time it surfaced back in 2010.
The choice is yours, and best of luck
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/03/2019
» There's an old dictum, "democracy is the right to make the wrong choice", and one suspects there are plenty of wrong choices available out there, but hopefully also a few good ones as we enter the final straight leading to March 24.
Perils of mushroom picking in Thailand
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 07/05/2017
» One encouraging piece of news this week was the Supreme Court reducing the sentence of the Kalasin mushroom pickers accused of illegal logging from 15 years to five. But many questions remain.
When things didn’t go like clockwork
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/03/2016
» A couple of years ago there was a fuss when it was decided to introduce digital clocks into the Thai parliament. Centre of the storm were 10 parliamentary officials responsible for spending nearly 15 million baht on the clocks, a sum many thought was exorbitant.
Feeling one’s way through the festive fog
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 20/12/2015
» Good morning! Well, I hope it is, although if you are anything like Crutch you are probably more likely to be scrambling for the pain-killers right now.