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Not-so-easy decisions
News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2016
» Like a hungry dog at a fresh food market, it requires little imagination to grasp the difficulty government types have in distinguishing right from wrong.
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.
Sick healthcare system
News, Postbag, Published on 25/06/2017
» As I watch Republican congressmen try to make healthcare unaffordable for tens of millions of old, poor and chronically ill Americans, I am gaining a new appreciation of Thaksin.
City 'no-go' zones
News, Postbag, Published on 03/11/2017
» Despite advice for simple, inexpensive but workable solutions to the Saphan Taksin BTS station single line problem, our city planners are determined to go ahead with the station expansion project.
A paragon of virtues
News, Postbag, Published on 31/12/2017
» As Pliny the Younger noted, "Example [is] the surest method of instruction."
Down the rabbit hole
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2018
» Help me, somebody, I think I must have fallen down a rabbit hole and found myself in a world as crazy as Alice did. In this strange, topsy-turvy world the people who ousted an elected government, an action usually considered more serious than sedition is now arresting protesters and dissidents for actions and speech inciting people to rebel against their government.
Let's enable change
News, Postbag, Published on 16/03/2018
» Re: "Wheelchair activist smashes door after BTS access row", (BP, March 13).
Fed up with politics
News, Postbag, Published on 21/06/2019
» Re: "Same old politics stuck on repeat", (Commentary, June 20).
Thai tantrums
News, Postbag, Published on 01/11/2019
» I do not understand why many Thais are being hysterical about US President Donald Trump suspending trade preferences for Thailand under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP).
Protecting Pareena
News, Postbag, Published on 16/11/2019
» Re: "Pareena saga a test of land reform resolve", (Opinion, Nov 15).