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Compromise or confrontation8 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 1 week ago: Last week, Susan Delacourt suggested some sort of compromise might get us past Parliament’s de … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, Afghanistan, Australia, Detainees, Documents, House of Commons, New South Wales, Parliament

Controlling retirees

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 1 week ago: The political temperature is going up as the Democrat Party-led government tries to bolster its poli … more →

Tags: 2006 coup, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Democrat Party, military, Palace, People’s Alliance for Democracy, Pichitr Kullavanijaya, Puea Thai party, suthep thaugsuban

Prem abandoned?2 comments

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 3 weeks ago: Also available as เปรมถูกปล่อยเกาะหรือ Veera Prateepchaikul in the Bangkok Post (30 November 2009: … more →

Tags: 2006 coup, Democrat Party, Peua Thai Party, Prem Tinsulanonda, Red Shirts

So what's to be done to judge in bias case? 1 comment

Alf Grumble wrote 3 weeks ago: There’s the whiff of something distinctly rotten wafting from our justice system. Justice Mini … more →

Tags: Justice, Ministry of Justice, simon power, Supreme Court, legal aid, Lawyers, Justice System, Dame Margaret Bazley, law & society

Suthep, the military and protecting the monarchy

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 3 weeks ago: Also available as Suthep, das Militär und der Schutz der Monarchie (German). Deputy Prime Minister i … more →

Tags: Democrat Party, suthep thaugsuban, republicanism, military, 2006 coup, 2007 Constitution, Red Shirts, Prem Tinsulanonda

The fantastic "Dubai plan"4 comments

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 3 weeks ago: Also available as จินตนาการเพ้อเจ้อของ “ปฏิญญาดูไบ” The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) … more →

Tags: Democrat Party, Thaksin Shinawatra, Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Finland Plot, Thai Rak Thai Party, Suriyasai Katasila, Red Shirts, People’s Alliance for Democracy

Samak and human rights4 comments

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 4 weeks ago: Samak Sundaravej passed away and the obituaries are dissecting his past and noting that he was a com … more →

Tags: Human Rights, Giles Ungpakorn, Ji Ungpakorn, Monarchy, Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai Rak Thai Party, Samak Sundaravej, 6 October 1976, Communist Party of Thailand

Royalist argues the monarchy is good, not political

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 1 month ago: PPT knows that most astute readers do not take  Pornpimol Kanchanalak’s columns in the Nation … more →

Tags: Monarchy, Thaksin Shinawatra, Nationalism, Pornpimol Kanchanalak, Royalists

Advising Abhisit on the south

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 1 month ago: A short report in the Bangkok Post (8 November 2009: “Rebel strikes likely to rise”) pro … more →

Tags: Amnesty International, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Human Rights Watch, Surayud Chulanont, 2006 coup, Prawase Wasi, Somchai Neelaphaijit, South, Prem Tinsulanonda

Red shirt organizing and commentary

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 1 month ago: Thai Intelligent News, a quirky blog that commentates on Thai news has an interesting report by Tamm … more →

Tags: 2006 coup, Chaturon Chaisaeng, Red Shirts, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Prem Tinsulanonda, Alec Bamford

The old gang and getting Thaksin

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 1 month ago: Also available as แก๊งสามาณย์กับการไล่ล่าทักษิณ As PPT mentioned in its post regarding Prime Ministe … more →

Tags: Abhisit Vejjajiva, ASTV/Manager, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, People’s Alliance for Democracy, Prem Tinsulanonda, Somchai Wongsawat, Thaksin Shinawatra

Bought traitors

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 2 months ago: PPT realizes that The Nation’s Sopon Onkgara is not taken too seriously by many readers these … more →

Tags: Thaksin Shinawatra, Sopon Onkgara, Puea Thai party, Prem Tinsulanonda, ASTV, Royalists, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, ASTV/Manager

Asia Times on succession and political conflict

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 2 months ago: Shawn Crispin at Asia Times Online (17 October 2009: “Thailand mulls royal succession”) … more →

Tags: Lese majeste, Monarchy, Abhisit Vejjajiva, United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, 2007 Constitution, Red Shirts, Vajiralongkorn, Queen Sirikit, Sirindhorn

Prem and the "traitor" Chavalit5 comments

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 2 months ago: Privy Council President General Prem Tinsulanonda The Bangkok Post,(16 October 2009: “Prem adm … more →

Tags: Surayud Chulanont, Red Shirts, Puea Thai party, Jatuporn Promphan, Prem Tinsulanonda, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh

Reducing the power of the privy council

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 2 months ago: In a timely piece given rumors of the king’s demise, Prachatai (14 October 2009: “Academ … more →

Tags: Monarchy, Succession, Prem Tinsulanonda, Somsak Jeamteerasakul, Royal Prerogative

A Question Of Confidence

nastylittletruths wrote 2 months ago: I’ve always liked Reginald Dumas… (How many years ago was it when he and Diana Mahabir-W … more →

Tags: trinidad, constitution, Law, Dictatorship, democracy, Imperialism, Justice System

Royalist myth-making1 comment

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 2 months ago: PPT missed making a comment on a piece by Pavin Chachavalpongpun in The Singapore Straits Times and … more →

Tags: Lese majeste, Monarchy, 2006 coup, 6 October 1976, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Chamlong Srimuang, Succession, Royalists, May 1992 massacre

With 3 updates: Sufficiency economy and democracy at the UN1 comment

thaipoliticalprisoners wrote 2 months ago: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s speech to the U.N. on 26 September 2009, received no intern … more →

Tags: Lese majeste, Monarchy, Thaksin Shinawatra, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Surayud Chulanont, Sufficiency Economy, Thai Rak Thai Party, Computer Crimes Act, Sirindhorn

Opening the Upper House2 comments

simonashall wrote 2 months ago: Packed with cronies or open for applications? It’s a quiet Friday today, not much new in the p … more →

Tags: Politics, Other Blogs, Woking Borough Council, House of Lords, Tim Dodds


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