• 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

  Still watching

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/12/2018

  » In its infinite benevolence and wisdom and all-around sacrifice, the exclusive men's club known as the National Council for Peace and Order (Junta) gave back some of the stuff they took from us four and a half years ago.

• OPINION

  The kids are all right

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 28/10/2018

  » <i>Prathet Ku Mee</i> is no slapped-together concert song. It wasn't made, so much as crafted. The accusatory lyrics are set against the shameful, hovering background of the 1976 dictators' massacre at Thammasat University. The rap song's finale brings the background image of the hanged, beaten student to the front of the picture, before fading out to the hopeful message, "All people unite".

• 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

  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

  The strong arm of the law

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 05/08/2018

  » The most heavily armed military member in Thailand in the most heavily armed unit of the Royal Thai Armed Forces is the head of the Judge Advocate-General (JAG) office of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).

• 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.

• OPINION

  A walk in the Park

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 24/06/2018

  » So the latest unchangeable, confirmed, guaranteed date of the 2015 Thailand general election isn't "definitely in February" after all, but some time in the next 371 days. To put it another way, voting will be, in the words of the country's official political cartographer, "early in 2019", or by Sunday, June 30.

• THAILAND

  Live and kicking

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/03/2018

  » They say Thailand is an ageing society. Thailand's getting older, they say. At one end, old farts and fartettes live longer, they point out, and at the other these young couples today, you know, they say a lot of them don't even want to have kids. All true, too.

• THAILAND

  What, we worry?

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/02/2018

  » Last week filled out the cast of the least-awaited drama in Thai TV news history, <i>The Untouchables: Bred Men Walking</i>, starring the Watchman, the FAT man and the Catman.

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