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Political ties
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/06/2019
» I remember my first few months in Thailand. Having fallen in love with the culture, I was determined to steep myself in it as much as I could. I learned to enjoy a hot panang curry over rice for breakfast -- what a jolt to the system after a lifetime of cornflakes and toast and, upon entering adulthood, black coffee and a cigarette.
A portal into trouble
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/03/2019
» This story begins 12 months ago. I needed a new door for my bathroom, so I walked down to the end of my soi where there is a giant wood factory.
All in a dream
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/11/2018
» He appeared out of nowhere. My personal assistant. He was dressed in his work uniform. I don't know where he came from but he ran towards me.
A very touchy subject
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/04/2018
» This week our prime minister came face to face with the hottest musical group in Thailand.
'Deaf' Western beggars deserve a right earful
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/12/2017
» There has been a commotion this past week in the media over the appearance of two attractive young Westerners begging for money at an intersection in Klong Toey in Bangkok. Just four days ago, the Bangkok Post published a photograph of one of them, a woman, clutching a bunch of Thai flags and trying to flog them off car window to car window. There was a man as well.
A pain in the anal cavity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/10/2017
» For the first time ever, in the nine years I have written this weekly column, I write to you with a temperature of 38.7 degrees. Apparently that's pretty high. I'm not an expert on body temperature, but it was high enough for me to end up in a special waiting room at my hospital, separated from the Samut Prakan masses, and not because I was a VIP.
Era of the cowardly terrorist gains pace
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/05/2017
» Theresa May put it succinctly. The British prime minister called the bombers of our age "cowards". She's absolutely right.
SOS ... here comes EXO
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/03/2016
» How was your International Women’s Day? Mine was a shambles, thanks to 10,000 women.
Has the Age of Aquarius arrived?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/02/2016
» Back when I was a mere child there was a popular song heralding the Age of Aquarius. It came from the stage musical Hair, a product of the late 1960s calling itself a “Tribal Love-Rock Musical”.
No resolution in the briefest end
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/09/2015
» The man next door to the studio hanged himself last Wednesday. He did it while we were recording a radio show. It caused a commotion in the soi and resulted in a very healthy display of what the Thais call Thai moong, which is a group of locals standing rigid, faces not unlike extras from the Walking Dead, staring at the accident or, in this case, the dead body dangling from the second floor.