• OPINION

  Into the political fray

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/09/2018

  » Last June 30, the sometimes-accurate online Wikipedia updated the opening line of its entry on the general prime minister. For the first time, the introduction read, "Prayut Chan-o-cha is a Thai politician..." Before that, according to Wikipedia, Gen (Ret) Prayut was just a retired army general and head of the military junta -- which is what he claimed to be.

• OPINION

  A ripping yarn, but not the Pentagon Papers

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/01/2018

  » <i>The Post</i>, opening for this weekend's cinema trade, is an unfortunate movie in the spirit of <i>All the President's Men</i> that lionises but lies about what happened during seminal moments in recent US history.

• OPINION

  Commission on a mission

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 17/03/2019

  » "The Election Commission shall announce the result of the election", and there really hasn't been any more vast difference between the EC and the members of the public. It's not even supposed to be a worry. But everyone's worrying about the scraping of all the foreign votes and the vital gathering of all today's advance votes and the really major assembling next week of every one-person-one-vote.

• OPINION

  The political class

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 02/12/2018

  » While the politicians asking for your priceless vote were trying to make appointments at the spinal replacement clinic, the general prime minister went to Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel told him he should restore democracy in Thailand. He said he's going to have an election next year, and that was the end of it.

• OPINION

  Digital Tu

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/10/2018

  » In the week the general prime minister saw Trump's Twitter bet and raised him by 400%, he did something even more political. He stopped the march to enactment of the Cybersecurity Act in its tracks.

• OPINION

  Facts, fake news and media control

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 02/09/2018

  » While the regular comedy clubs that ban political humour are running as usual, the best line of the week was actually the statement:

• OPINION

  Turning red into green

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/07/2018

  » Rarely in recent Thai political history has a government minister been so honest, so open and so utterly truthful as was PM's Office Minister Kobsak Pootrakool last Sunday.

• OPINION

  Punch lines

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/07/2018

  » If the general prime minister has his way -- and it looks like he probably will -- it won't be politics or police or the justice system that he'll finally reform.

• OPINION

  T-Minus 195

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 12/08/2018

  » The founder and chairman of Asia's only military kratocracy passed a milestone last Tuesday. Gen (Ret) Prayut has now been in office four years and 82 days, more than half the time of the general he had hoped was his mentor, the leader of the 1980s, Gen Prem Tinsulanonda.

• OPINION

  Peeing on our parade

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/07/2018

  » Free wi-fi is now available for all guests in Hall 3 of Tham Luang, owned by Jao Mae Nang Non.

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