• OPINION

  Humour best weapon against strongmen

  News, Published on 13/02/2017

  » When Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square to protest against the regime of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they brought with them a sense of humour -- a weapon of fun against the guns and tear gas of the military. They carried cartoons, sang parodies and renamed the central garbage heap after one of the president's agencies.

• OPINION

  The remarkable lady from Nutbush

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 28/05/2023

  » Tributes have poured in for Tina Turner who sadly passed away at the age of 83 this week in Switzerland. I would like to add a small, if inadequate thank you to this wonderful performer who brought such joy to millions. In addition to having a great talent she was also a lovely lady and her Buddhist faith played a strong role in her life. Tina had soul.

• OPINION

  Lots of promises as big day approaches

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/04/2023

  » With the Great Event, otherwise known as election day, just around the corner, like most countries in the world we will have to brace ourselves for regular helpings of political poppycock including plenty of promises from prospective candidates. Still, it could be fun.

• OPINION

  The scope of the Orlando carnage goes beyond LGBT

  News, Frank Bruni, Published on 14/06/2016

  » These locations are never random. These targets aren't accidental. They're the very vocabulary in which assailants like the Orlando gunman speak, and he chose a place where there's drinking. And dancing. And where LGBT people congregate, feeling a sense of welcome, of belonging.

• OPINION

  It could be fun, in a strange sort of way

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 10/01/2021

  » A number of readers -- well, three -- have asked why last week's column did not contain the usual predictions for the coming year. My feeling at the time was that with the dark cloud of Covid-19 hovering over us it seemed a bit inappropriate to carry the usual frivolous PostScript predictions. However, I have had a change of heart and considering we are only 10 days into the New Year it is not too late to make silly forecasts.

• OPINION

  RTP's underbelly

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/09/2023

  » Re: "I don't want revenge, insists 'Big Joke'", (BP, Sept 28).

• OPINION

  Bald pride and the curse of the comb-over

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 26/01/2020

  » Last weekend, the Bangkok Post published an entertaining letter from the always perceptive S Tsow, who delivered an impassioned defence of being bald. Mr Tsow, who proudly describes himself as "a person of baldness", was particularly upset after observing on television one of Rudy Guiliani's associates (Lev Parnas) brazenly displaying a "cowardly comb-over".

• OPINION

  The smoking volcano and the disco queen

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/01/2020

  » Nearly eight years ago, an item in this column concluded: "If the Taal volcano does ever erupt again, I'll put on my Donna Summer album for old times' sake." An explanation of this curious combination of a songstress and a volcano is required.

• OPINION

  Beach dystopia: Still hope for paradises lost?

  News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 31/03/2018

  » About a decade ago, I hosted a friend from overseas. We visited the Grand Palace and Wat Pho and spent a few days in Koh Samet. It was an enjoyable experience and one we still reminisce about fondly from time to time.

• OPINION

  Nice attacker 'wasn't living in real world'

  News, New York Times, Published on 26/07/2016

  » His own parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. Desperate, by the time he was 19, they dragged him to a psychiatrist, who prescribed an anti-psychotic drug, a tranquilliser and an antidepressant.

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