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The politics of fear
News, Postbag, Published on 27/09/2016
» Re "Journalist unable to cut through Trump's falsehood", Opinion, Sept 24
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Whingeing old bag
News, Postbag, Published on 26/11/2016
» In the 1970s we had several correspondents of the "US Army (Ret'd)" ilk, bemoaning the failure of Thailand's governments and administrations in conducting the nation's affairs on the admirable lines of Rainbow Gulch or Redneck Springs. Possessed of almost universal expertise, they were very, very boring.
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Send in the clowns
News, Postbag, Published on 27/11/2016
» The State Enterprise Policy Office urges State Railway of Thailand (SRT) land development as a quick solution out of debt (BP, Nov 25). Who does it think it is kidding? The SRT is a bottomless pit as its debt piles up deeper and deeper due to inept management, lousy service, filthy, antiquated rolling stock, the inability to maintain any normal scheduling, and free rides.
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Some hard questions
News, Postbag, Published on 07/01/2017
» Re: "Horror highway crash, blast kills 25", (BP, Jan 3).
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Perils of police reform
News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2017
» I'm glad that PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is reforming the police at long last, but he shouldn't reinvent the wheel. In 2006, then-prime minister Gen Surayud Chulanont, former army chief and member of our beloved King Rama IX's Privy Council, appointed retired Pol Gen Vasit Dejkunjorn, former chief of police, to head a distinguished commission for this very purpose.
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Kindness goes long way
News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2017
» Re: "A helping hand for our wasted food," (Commentary, July 12).
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Scholars in the soi
News, Postbag, Published on 09/11/2017
» Re: "New role seen for police cadets", (BP, Nov 6).
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Army is the suspect
News, Postbag, Published on 27/11/2017
» The army should stop insisting it can impartially investigate the death of army cadet Pakapong "Moei" Tanyakan on campus, for "The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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A paragon of virtues
News, Postbag, Published on 31/12/2017
» As Pliny the Younger noted, "Example [is] the surest method of instruction."
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Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
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