• OPINION

  A mad, mad week

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/05/2018

  » Week Three of the 2019-2020 election campaign was Crazy Week. There always is at least one.

• OPINION

  Life without populism

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/05/2018

  » Once upon a time in a land very, very far away with a "government by the people, for the people" there was a plan to fix recalcitrant taxi drivers and make them pick up passengers, politely, and then to reward the drivers with a fare increase. And that plan was carried out in the faraway country, and passengers were happy to reward deserving, hard-working, uncomplaining taxi drivers.

• OPINION

  Do something!

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 03/02/2019

  » Admit it, Bangkokians. You like your vicarious danger. It could be because Bangkok hasn't the regrettably typical dangers of many cities. There are no cyclones, big earthquakes, volcanoes. So when world-class pollution hits, Bangkok folks are extraordinarily concerned but they also exhibit a weird, well, pride.

• OPINION

  Easy choices made difficult

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/12/2018

  » Lucius Edward William Plantagenet Cary, aka Lord Falkland, went to his death in the English Civil war, leaving little of note except a rule that could be the official motto of libertarians.

• 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.

• 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

  Cell-by dates

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/08/2017

  » The day after That Woman's closing statement in her malfeasance trial, national deputy police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul seemed painfully unhappy about something. He looked the way men with look with multi-day dyschezia or domestic dissimilarity. He said her approximately 900 supporters gathered at the court were well behaved "thanks to the 300 police" he ordered in.

• OPINION

  A rough landing

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 13/08/2017

  » The media treatment of the Don Mueang immigration mess made it seem like a new and unexpected event. As in <i>Casablanca</i>, officials were shocked -- shocked -- to find gambolling in the arrivals hall.

• OPINION

  A question of interpretation

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/11/2016

  » After 15 months of extremely iffy police work and very interesting prosecution strategy, the two button men of the Erawan Shrine atrocity got their destined opportunity to turn their trial into political theatre.

• OPINION

  A complicated man

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/09/2016

  » He was no man for all seasons so much as a man of many faces.

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