• OPINION

  A mad, mad week

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/05/2018

  » Week Three of the 2019-2020 election campaign was Crazy Week. There always is at least one.

• OPINION

  The hand that feeds them

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

  » When the columnists and panjandrums and degree-clutchers come to analyse the state of Thailand in mid- and late May, it's probably this past week that will fascinate them.

• THAILAND

  A bad week

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/02/2018

  » Bad week for the military regime. The antediluvians in green absorbed punishment from foreigners galore. Worse, at home, protesters judged to be disloyal Thais went on the streets. And after three years, eight months and some days, the courts put on their steel-toed boots and confronted the regime's rules.

• OPINION

  The three gutsy peers

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/09/2018

  » The six-month Bangkok Shutdown campaign may have given off an aura of fun and games with a positive outcome for the green shirts and a negative one for the reds.

• NEWS

  Rough road ahead

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/01/2018

  » The general prime minister, aka the politician who used to be a soldier, is strolling into a battleground and exhibits no sign he is aware of it.

• OPINION

  Full medal jacket

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 10/03/2019

  » After the failure of a brief moment of <i>Scum of the Earth</i> intimidation, the generals have gone running to court with their twin packs of green-shirt and government lawyers.

• OPINION

  Fairness needs to be ensured

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 27/01/2019

  » In sports, as in politics, they call it a "tilted playing field". One or many tiny modifications to the game area give advantages that don't absolutely guarantee that the home team wins, but help to make it more likely.

• OPINION

  A right royal confusion

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 10/02/2019

  » So a petite, 67-year-old woman stood against the tanks and the many-starred green shirts of the Royal Thai Army, and she whipped them. Public opinion agreed on that, and public opinion is how the nation's going to settle it on March 24.

• OPINION

  Out of the box

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/01/2019

  » For kakistocrats who have failed for four years-plus to organise reconciliation, bring back happiness, fight pollution in the air and on the beaches or even to organise so much as a date for an election, our all-male green-shirt regime sure has a lot to criticise about the rest of us.

• OPINION

  Independence muted

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/12/2018

  » The famously annoyable general prime minister was annoyed last week. The country's two largest political parties politely RSVP'd his invitation to a prayer meeting but declined because of the raucous nature of the worship.

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