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Cornered Orban at risk of losing next election
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/03/2026
» Viktor Orban has not aged well. When I met him in Budapest two months before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, he was a typical hyper-ambitious student leader. Anybody who has been to university knows the type: fluent, ruthless, perpetually on the look-out for the main chance, and oddly old still to be a student. (He was 26.)
EC defends Songkran trips to check advance voting
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/04/2023
» The Election Commission (EC) has taken flak after all six of its members flew abroad over the Songkran holiday using taxpayers' money to conduct inspection visits.
Government creep
News, Postbag, Published on 19/03/2022
» Re: "Govt mulls calling time on Lisa ads," (BP, March 17).
Tourists from 63 countries now exempt from quarantine rules
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/11/2021
» Thailand will begin admitting fully vaccinated visitors from 17 more countries without quarantine, increasing the number of countries on the list to 63.
No populist breakthrough yet in Europe
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/05/2019
» For the second time in a month, a member country of the European Union has not voted a populist into power. Could it be that the populist wave has broken?
Despite Brexit turmoil, I'm proud to be a Brit
News, John Lloyd, Published on 21/01/2019
» This is a fine time to be British. Indeed, to be proud to be British.
Peasants, behave!
News, Postbag, Published on 08/12/2018
» Re: "Enough of the iron grip", (Editorial, Dec 7).
Where did Eastern Europe go wrong?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/11/2018
» I first met Viktor Orban, the not-quite-dictator of Hungary, in 1989 in Budapest - and the man who introduced us was none other than George Soros.
Migrant misery spans worldwide
News, John Lloyd, Published on 25/06/2018
» It's an increasingly hard world for those seeking a better life in richer countries. Immigrants aren't welcome in most states, even where demographic trends reflect the need to expand the labor force to levels able to sustain and support aging populations.