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More official nonsense on monarchy and lese majeste
During the period of the Abhisit Vejjajiva regime, it was reasonably common to see various Thai diplomats leaping to their keyboards to send off letters to magazines and newspapers to “correct” what t… more →
Political Prisoners of Thailand
Thai PM appeals for calm
wrote 6 hours ago: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has appealed for calm as tension continued to mount over a c … more →
Thailand's 'yellow shirts' block parliamentary debate
wrote 1 day ago: Protesters in Thailand have blocked parliament to postpone debate on a reconciliation bill designed … more →
More official nonsense on monarchy and lese majeste
wrote 3 days ago: During the period of the Abhisit Vejjajiva regime, it was reasonably common to see various Thai dipl … more →
Sombat: the Dubai tycoon has left us
wrote 6 days ago: PPT has had a busy time of late as we try to keep up with interesting news stories. Hence we are lat … more →
Updated: Royal visit and the martial message
wrote 6 days ago: PPT concludes its series of posts on the hugely expensive and much hyped royal visit to Ayutthaya. A … more →
Yingluck’s 20 million baht polishing cloth
wrote 1 week ago: PPT momentarily missed a most significant story in the Bangkok Post that is related to two earlier p … more →
Finkelstein's wacky world of football
wrote 1 week ago: I was going to write something last week about Manchester City’s late triumph and their winnin … more →
No settlement in sight for southern Thailand Islamic issues
wrote 1 week ago: PATTANI – Thailand‘s security forces have clearly been unable to gain an upper hand in t … more →
Elite warned (all of them?)
wrote 1 week ago: At the Jakarta Globe, Nirmal Ghosh says that “Thailand’s red shirt movement is flexing its muscles a … more →
Success for Chelsea and Manchester City comes at a high price | Dave Boyle
wrote 1 week ago: Football’s billionaire owners are part of the global elite only too keen to distract us from h … more →
Ji on Thaksin’s political narcissism
wrote 1 week ago: Giles Ji Ungpakorn on Thaksin Shinawatra’s inability to distinguish himself (me, me, me) from the b … more →
On the anniversary of Abhisit’s crackdown II
wrote 2 weeks ago: As the anniversary of the violent 2010 military crackdown against red shirts is observed, it is wort … more →
On the anniversary of Abhisit’s crackdown I
wrote 2 weeks ago: As the anniversary of the Abhisit Vejjajiva regime’s army-led crackdown on red shirts draws closer, … more →
Putin's Wealth: No 'smoking gun' but some 'smoking watches'
wrote 2 weeks ago: Certificate showing that the wife of the Russian first deputy prime minister is the sole shareholder … more →
The terrain of lese majeste
wrote 2 weeks ago: It has been an emotional and (potentially) defining week in Thai politics, with the sad and unnecess … more →
Challenging a supine Yingluck on lese majeste
wrote 3 weeks ago: A few days ago at The Nation, Pravit Rojanaphruk had an article that is part of a lese majeste chall … more →
Economist not distributed (again)
wrote 3 weeks ago: Under the horrid Abhisit Vejjajiva regime of royalist repression, several issues of the Economist we … more →
The royalist elite has lost
wrote 3 weeks ago: Thitinan Pongsudhirak has an op-ed at the Wall Street Journal that will get some attention, not leas … more →
Chamlong on Prem and Yingluck
wrote 3 weeks ago: If the meeting between Yingluck Shinawatra and three of her deputies has caused angst for red shirts … more →
