• 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".

• THAILAND

  Too connected to fail?

  Alan Dawson, Published on 11/02/2018

  » Sia Prem and three friends went out hunting for a new, black leopard throw rug and all we got was this disgusting news story.

• THAILAND

  Brave the third wave

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 07/01/2018

  » The regime is about set to spring the third wave of its plan to extend government by elites. They're careful plans and they seem foolproof. But we will continue to live in interesting times, because not all military attacks proceed as planned.

• THAILAND

  DJ and the PM

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 10/12/2017

  » On the first Dec 5 National Day of the only active military regime in the world, the United States sent a so typically American message -- "Nice foreign relations we've got here. Be a shame if anything happened to them."

• OPINION

  The big issue: How exceptional of you

  Alan Dawson, Published on 24/07/2016

  » When the rebels fled and events cooled down a bit in Turkey, Thailand’s opposition was ecstatic. Citizens poured onto the streets, even assaulted soldiers, forcing the Turkish military to beat feet. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s regime felt it had to say something and that something was "exceptionalism" and Thainess. Sure, Turks couldn't run a military coup, but Thailand is different, with an excellent coup.

• OPINION

  The big issue: We must 'do something'

  Alan Dawson, Published on 10/01/2016

  » A police constable summed up the situation perfectly after tough enforcement failed to stem the New Year’s holiday road slaughter. “People are absolutely not getting the message,” the constable told reporters from a TV news station. In Toronto.

• OPINION

  The big issue: Foxes drafted for henhouse duty

  Alan Dawson, Published on 04/10/2015

  » The discovery of the previously secret plans to pipe the entire internet through one government-monitored tube was made by frequent tweeter @sikachu, whose online name is Prem Sichanugrist.

• OPINION

  The big issue: One damp thing after another

  Alan Dawson, Published on 14/06/2015

  » MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra is building his way to a wondrously forgettable year, seemingly determined that if he is fated to fail, he’s going to make it a spectacular show.

• OPINION

  The big issue: Have gun, will travel

  Alan Dawson, Published on 28/06/2015

  » There have been two questions about the year's most eventful trip to Japan from the start. Did Pol Lt Gen Kamronwit Thoopkrachang know he was carrying? Did the Suvarnabhumi airport security staff fail to find a gun that was about to carried aboard a Thai International Airways flight to Japan?

• OPINION

  Freebies for rice farmers

  Alan Dawson, Published on 05/10/2014

  » It's not a bad job, all things considered, to be a member of the military government. The pay's fine, the perks are outstanding, you don't have to put up with any of that "democratic protest" nonsense like Beijing's flunky in Hong Kong suffers.

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