• OPINION

  More a sorry scrawl than a signature

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 15/09/2019

  » Visiting the bank the other day I had to sign a bunch of documents that no doubt would be carefully filed away to collect dust in a basement, never to be seen again. By the time I had finished I was uncomfortably aware that no two signatures of mine are exactly the same, even when written in close succession.

• OPINION

  In the Land of the Midnight Sun

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 25/08/2019

  » Living in the tropics probably explains why I tend to enjoy reading books and watching films set in places where really cold weather prevails. It must be that perverse, but comforting, feeling that once you step outside the cinema or put down the book you are immediately back in the more friendly temperatures of the tropics again.

• OPINION

  US president who loved the Big Mango

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 28/07/2019

  » Last week it was the moon landing, today it's another 50th anniversary, US President Richard Nixon visiting Thailand. Just a week after congratulating the US astronauts on the lunar triumph, Mr and Mrs Nixon landed in Bangkok on July 28, 1969, on their way to embattled South Vietnam.

• OPINION

  Alas, the truth is still putting its boots on

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 05/05/2019

  » According to the Washington Post, last week President Donald Trump notched up his 10,000th lie or untruth since took he took office. While many of the falsehoods are admittedly trifling and others child-like exaggerations of which he is so fond, there have also been a few embarrassing "whoppers". It still works out at about 17 alleged "porky pies" a day, which takes some doing.

• OPINION

  Sometimes you just have to walk away

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 03/03/2019

  » The Hanoi summit may not have gone quite as smoothly as planned, but I'll leave that for the experts to dissect. One suspects the expression "sometimes you have to walk" will be widely featured in forthcoming panel discussions. Nonetheless, the summit did have its entertaining moments.

• OPINION

  News that is driving us all up the wall

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 20/01/2019

  » Just as most Brits must be sick to death of ever hearing the word Brexit, across the Pond one suspects the majority of Americans have also had more than their fill of The Wall. You can't escape those dreaded words even here in Thailand. Switch on the satellite news and you will be bombarded by the two topics, analysed by every expert in the world, most of whom happen to have just written a book on the subject.

• OPINION

  There's a beauty for every occasion

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/12/2018

  » Unless you have been in hibernation you will be aware that Thailand is currently hosting the 2018 Miss Universe contest which climaxes tomorrow at the less-than-entertaining hour of 7am, presumably to cater to primetime audiences in the United States.

• OPINION

  Possibly an uncanny case of hoof in mouth

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 21/10/2018

  » The gentleman in the White House has run into self-inflicted flak over his indelicate use of the word "horseface" in describing the adult film actress he may or may not have dangled with. However, she came storming back with a tweet of her own, referring to him as "Tiny", which one suspects was not a compliment. These exchanges could become quite entertaining.

• OPINION

  Planes that made grandma's house rattle

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/07/2018

  » Reports about the Farnborough Air Show which has been taking place in Hampshire this past week brought back some fond memories. Every summer in the 1950s and most of the 60s I would stay at my grandmother's home in the village of Cove, which backs onto Farnborough airfield.

• OPINION

  Breaking news: Pattaya to be 'livable'

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 10/06/2018

  » Most encouraging news of the week came on Wednesday when authorities announced a crackdown on crime in Pattaya which will finally make the city "livable". The somewhat quaintly named "Operation rooting out crime for a livable city" is admittedly a bit of a mouthful and we can only wish the boys in brown the best of luck. I mean, where do they start?

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