• OPINION

  False jab promises

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/09/2021

  » Re:. "Asean's vaccination tally", (BP, Sept 1).

• OPINION

  Picasso's 'Guernica' still relevant today

  Oped, Published on 29/04/2023

  » This month marks the anniversary of one of the many atrocities of the last century carried out in the cause of nationalism. On Monday, April 26, 1937, less than a year after dissident Spanish generals launched a coup d'état against a democratically elected coalition government, German and Italian airplanes bombed Gernika, in the Basque Country of Spain.

• OPINION

  Reflecting on a century of Fascism

  News, Published on 07/11/2022

  » When Fascist Blackshirts marched through the streets of Rome at the end of October 1922, their leader, Benito Mussolini, had just been installed as prime minister.

• OPINION

  'Bibi' Netanyahu's endless quest

  News, Published on 23/03/2021

  » Israelis are to vote in their fourth election in two years today, but there is already talk of a fifth election later this year. They will just have to go on voting until they get it right.

• OPINION

  The peace deal that forgets the Palestinians

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 31/01/2020

  » The peculiar thing about the "peace deal" between Israelis and Palestinians that was announced in Washington on Tuesday was obvious at a single glance.

• OPINION

  Netanyahu has nearly finished his grim mission

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/09/2019

  » Benjamin Netanyahu's work is almost done. If he wins tomorrow's election and forms yet another government (he is now the longest-serving Israeli prime minister), he will put a stake through the heart of the "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was born in the 1993 Oslo peace accords. Hamas should send him a gold watch for long service.

• OPINION

  Strange priorities

  News, Postbag, Published on 29/08/2019

  » I am feeling bemused, bewildered and befuddled by the outpouring of grief and numerous stories in the media about the death of a baby dugong.

• OPINION

  Some dirt won't hurt

  News, Postbag, Published on 06/08/2019

  » Re: "Cleaning up Khao San", (BP, Aug 4). It is distressing to see Bangkok Post reporters struggling to put a positive spin on the imminent gutting of Khao San Road.

• OPINION

  Shopping for a judge

  News, Postbag, Published on 17/03/2019

  » Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party, in a recent interview with the Bangkok Post, is quoted as saying "The criminal charges against Khun Thaksin [were laid] under the military government … we are proposing to get him back. Reopen the cases against him, and the judge has to be neutral … he has the right to a free and fair trial."

• OPINION

  Together, we can transform China

  News, Published on 26/11/2018

  » The behaviour of Chinese officials at last weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Papua New Guinea, reportedly barging into the foreign minister's office to try to cut mildly critical language on trade from a final communique, seemed intended to signal that China won't budge an inch on US demands. Commerce Minister Zhong Shan has declared that those who assume Beijing will cave to President Donald Trump's bullying "don't know the history and culture of China". As a matter of fact, they might understand it better than he thinks.

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