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  • OPINION

    The worldwide population boon

    Oped, Published on 31/03/2023

    » An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population. Thomas Malthus famously ignited furious arguments in the 19th century when he warned that, absent fertility-control policies, exponential population growth would outpace improvements in agriculture and cause recurrent bouts of famine and pestilence. Industrialisation would postpone the crisis, but not forever.

  • LIFE

    When sleaze gets slick

    B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 05/05/2019

    » Fat White Family, for the uninitiated, are a South London group trading in all manners of classic punk depravities, rock'n'roll drug habits and songs with imaginatively risqué titles (Cream Of The Young, Is It Raining In Your Mouth?, Bomb Disneyland). Led by founding frontman Lias Saoudi, the band is notorious for their outrageous live gigs, where shocking antics and nudity are not uncommon. As a band, this collective transgression is the unique selling point upon which their 2013 debut album Champagne Holocaust and its follow-up Songs For Our Mothers hinged. It's also the very factor that contributed to "the sort of classic stereotypical drug meltdown", as Lias puts it in his recent interview with Noisey, which led to them getting dropped by US-based Fat Possum Records.

  • OPINION

    Moment of truth

    News, Published on 23/05/2023

    » Re: "Lese majeste stance could sink Dems' PM vote", (BP, May 18).

  • TECH

    Tears of joy

    Life, Komsan John Jandamit, Published on 24/05/2023

    » An initial glance at the graphics and game world of Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, on the Nintendo Switch, would make anyone think it's just an expensive DLC (downloadable content).

  • OPINION

    Thai army needs to march to a new tune

    Oped, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 13/05/2023

    » I always get feelings of fear when I hear the army's famous propaganda song, Nak Paendin, which in Thai means "burden of the country". As a child born during the 1970s, this song reminds me of military putsches.

  • OPINION

    Picasso's 'Guernica' still relevant today

    Oped, Published on 29/04/2023

    » This month marks the anniversary of one of the many atrocities of the last century carried out in the cause of nationalism. On Monday, April 26, 1937, less than a year after dissident Spanish generals launched a coup d'état against a democratically elected coalition government, German and Italian airplanes bombed Gernika, in the Basque Country of Spain.

  • WORLD

    Holdouts in a nuclear zone

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/05/2023

    » The world's worst nuclear disaster, unfolding only a few kilometres away, did not force Halyna Voloshyna, 74, to abandon her home in Chernobyl in 1986.

  • OPINION

    Killing Darya Dugina: Ukraine own-goal?

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2022

    » 'Iam a political observer of the International Eurasianist Movement and an expert in international relations. In this capacity, I appear on Russian, Pakistani, Turkish, Chinese and Indian television channels. The situation in Ukraine is really an example of a clash of civilisations; it can be seen as a clash between globalist and Eurasian civilisation."

  • TRAVEL

    Options abound for pilgrims

    Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 29/12/2022

    » It's time to say goodbye to 2022, and doing good deeds to bring in the New Year seems to be the norm. Those who are staying in Bangkok can benefit from this rare opportunity to have a peaceful vacation while most leave the capital.

  • OPINION

    Time to be up-front

    News, Postbag, Published on 28/12/2022

    » Re: "Panel set to begin probe into warship tragedy," (BP, Dec 27).

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