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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.
The death of vote-buying
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/11/2018
» The government announced a brand new and unexpected Big Welfare Aid Programme (BWAP). Cynics, sceptics, anti-regime critics and even honest people wondered if the sudden decision to help the least-advantaged Thais just possibly has something to do with that other government programme -- so tantalisingly unspecified -- of an election that for the fourth year in a row has been pencilled in for, in the highly familiar phrase used by the general prime minister, "next year".
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.
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.
Subtle moves on poll theft front
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 15/04/2018
» Fabulous week for election thievery, last week was. It was so slick you have to think it was either an accident or proof that the general prime minister should seriously stick around and break the service record for the post (Plaek Pibulsonggram, 9 years, 161 days).
The big issue: Until we meet again
Alan Dawson, Published on 06/03/2016
» It took years for Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda to become the face and voice of reliable news. And it took a few minutes for a Criminal Court judge to tell the country that maybe all that public trust was a bit misplaced.
The big issue: The end of the beginning
Alan Dawson, Published on 18/05/2014
» If you start with "Prime Minister" Yingluck and she becomes "caretaker Prime Minister" Yingluck who turns into "acting caretaker Prime Minister" Niwattumrong, what is the person after him called?
Aurora changes nothing in Colorado's gun debate
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/07/2012
» The chances that last week's cinema massacre will result in changes to gun laws in the United States, or the state of Colorado, are so slim they barely exist.