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  1. George Aylesham
    And change the 90 day report to 180 days - it'll halve the paperwork.
  2. George Aylesham
    Ouch! To be compared to Piers, that must hurt.
  3. George Aylesham
    Clearly not in the USA where 450 people a day are dying from Covid.
  4. George Aylesham
    Their premises, their rules.
  5. George Aylesham
    Indonesia has already decided to move its capital from Jakarta for this very reason. Saigon (HCMC), Manila and further afield, Shanghai, Tokyo, Taipei and Dhaka face similar fates in a foreseeable future. See the UN report 'Sinking Cities, Rising Seas' for more details.
  6. George Aylesham
    No more or less so than the USA's universal wish of "Have a nice day". Both are simple gestures of courtesy, and courtesy is one of the lubricants of society.
  7. George Aylesham
    Have a referendum but only in the three provinces. (Clear parallels with the Northern Ireland situation?)
  8. George Aylesham
    Yes but it was Britain which gave away the three southern provinces (Treaty of Bangkok, 1909) to Thailand. in fact Britain is pretty good at giving away other peoples territorities and the consequences are still being felt in for example, Palestine, (The Balfour delcaration 1917).
  9. George Aylesham
    Many countries have laws relating to squatters rights too.
  10. George Aylesham
    According to the report 60 people suffered from 'acute side effects' of cannabis. But over the same period how many suffered from the acute side effects of alcohol - including shootings, road accidents etc?
  11. George Aylesham
    What a sensible, non-judgemental comment. Many older farang, often bruised by divorce or widowhood, are simply looking for a companion to to look after them in their old age and this does not exclude the development of genuine affection. Both sides accept the financial obligation to care for the wife after he is gone.
  12. George Aylesham
    Tragic - r.i.p. the young lady and peace to her family. But it shows the necessity of updating the local building standards and introduce higher balconies for the new generation of taller Thais.
  13. George Aylesham
    Actually four years back I got a fair price for some gold jewellery in a market gold shop in Chiang Mai - one piece of which wasn't even hall marked. (Fair price because I got a reliable jeweller to value the pieces for me first)
  14. George Aylesham
    Actually that's a pretty good idea - insurance invalidated by non-wearing of seatbelt (just as life insurance is invalidated by suicide)
  15. George Aylesham
    "land that's rightfully yours" - cart before the horse here; it was Chiang kai-chek who was pushed out of mainland China by the Communists, so in principle China belongs to Taiwan, not the other way round. Anyway sadly that puts paid to the holiday I was planning in Taipei unless the People's Republic gets over its silly tantrum quickly.
  16. George Aylesham
    One slight hope on the horizon is that in July of next year the 15-year rule disenfranchising UK citizens from voting will be repealed. Perhaps the prospect of up to 500,000 overseas frozen pensioners voting against them might persuade the government to correct this injustice.
  17. George Aylesham
    Well it certainly worked with the management of Covid with far lower numbers of deaths than most of the countries in the Western world and an effective, cheap app, Morprom, which actually works.
  18. George Aylesham
    “This is what I had to learn but I am not thinking of learning anything more as I am now old, " Me too, I'm 80 but learning new things every day is what gets me out of bed every morning.
  19. George Aylesham
    If you allowed to and your electoral region hasn't been gerrymandered
  20. George Aylesham
    Not forgetting of course taxation. But one major advantage has been to reduce the prison population.
  21. George Aylesham
    And the USA?
  22. George Aylesham
    Yes the tax cuts will be financed by selling off even more of the National Health Service, Channel 4 and reducing Council grants even further.
  23. George Aylesham
    Boris Johnson in Britain too - even to the point of being a KGB operative.
  24. George Aylesham
    Just like dear old Blighty - 18 July: British Government wins vote of no confidence by 349 to 238. Vaudeville!
  25. George Aylesham
    Doesn't seem much of a debate to me. The Thais wisely don't want to catch the new super infectious Covid/omicron mutations and they all seem to be wearing masks - at least up here in Chiang Mai.

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