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These lawsuits must be costing Mr Trump a lot of money - I doubt that there are any lawyers left who will work for him without the money up front!

"Breaching his contract "? The bloke perjured himself and went to prison for him!

Surprised to see the boys in brown out and about after dark!

A true believer in democracy, with a deep respect for the Thai electorate.

If the registration fails, and that is not put right, then they will not be able to vote.

It is often suggested that short term membership of the monkhood is used by all sorts of people as a way of avoiding a variety of liabilities and perhaps punishments. I don't know if this young man has entered the monkhood out of conviction, or for other reasons. Perhaps he should be afforded the same consideration as certain older more notorious individuals. I am not a Buddhist, the faith and it's practice is central to society and the monkhood seems to have a well structured clerical hierarchy. Perhaps it would be for them to decide.

Apologies are all very well, but did they remedy or extend the deadline, or were people left simply unable to vote? One of the features of Thai society and elections are the large numbers of people who work "away from home" for extended periods. They are very often from province's where support for the principal opposition parties is strong. Coincidentally they are those for whom registering is problematic.

It does seem that undermining public confidence in elections is an important part of the MAGA campaign.

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Better check your irony filters!

A giant amongst leaders, a noble lean mean steely eyed killer, a man who has sacrificed his retirement after decades of heroic struggles battling teak, rosewood and gem smugglers along the south eastern borders...

Looking at that picture it is not hard to imagine where the commission's allegiances lie! Subtle yes?

The man is an absolute charlatan, imagine, giving your mum some shares in a defunct media company. We certainly had a narrow escape last time round!

Thank you ASEAN Now for helping me get a handle on the various election posters decorating the roads. The diagonal red, white and blue stripes on the obligatory white zip up jacket identifies ultra nationalist xenophobes, you don't have to get close enough to make out the frothy mouths. Now, who is the hard faced copper with the big hat from "centra casting" who is everywhere - what a miserable looking so and so. Place will be a barrel of laughs if he gets in!

With a nice warm slightly moist feeling in your underpants whilst contemplating others' misfortunes!

1) It is The Guardian whining about Brexit. 2) Is anyone planning a holiday in the UK going to be put off by the simple requirement to have a passport to enter the country?

That, seems to be the case the world over. The world over the licencing authorities are also stuck in the dark ages. I had a private hire vehicle for a few years. In my licensing area (Bath) there were both private hires (hired through and controlled by a call centre) and Hackney cabs - hailed on the streets or picked up at a rank. The vehicle requirements, drivers licensing, knowledge exam ( admittedly Mickey Mouse compared to London) and fares were identical. The difference was that the number of Hackney plates was capped, at I think, 75. That gave them a value, if you wanted a Hackney plate you had to buy it from a driver. In theory a retiring driver was supposed to hand in his plate to the council who would then issue it out again; in practice they were sold for over £10,000, with the collusion of the council licensing office. There was an annual registration fee for both types of taxi, of around £400. In an attempt to increase the number of wheelchair accessible taxis the council introduced a policy of waiving the fee on wheelchair accessible Hackney cabs. A number of very tired ex London Cabs appeared on the ranks. I had a brand new Citroen minibus (8 seater) fitted with wheelchair ramps and securing clamps. I asked (at the annual council/drivers liaison meeting) why the same waiver was not applicable to Private Hire Vehicles, after all, if you are in a wheelchair you are far more likely to ring for a taxi to pick you up from home than you are to wheel yourself halfway across town to a rank in the hope that a piss stained third hand old Black Cab, whose driver hadn't "forgotten to bring his wheelchair ramps with him" pulled up on the ramp! Goodness me, you would have thought that I had suggested a slaughter of the firstborn! I was literally shouted down by the hackney drivers. The council officer simply refused to answer the question; and I received anonymous threats stuck under my windscreen wiper threatening that my vehicle would be smashed up and I would be beaten up if I persisted! Neither the council nor the police (who had a representative at the meeting) were minded to do anything. In fact, the hackney fraternity managed to persuade First Great Western to bar me from loading or unloading wheelchair passengers on the station forecourt, I had to wheel them a couple of hundred metres down the road from the nearest place I could park, and invariably risk a parking ticket from the parking Gestapo. My one victory was to refuse to pay the parking fines, and to threaten to take the council to court over them. They backed down. A very influential wheelchair bound chap who I had to wheel 200 metres in pouring rain took up my case with the railway and they lifted the ban. A bit of a rambling tale I know, and Bath is a long way from Phuket(!) but having worked in the business I would suggest that the majority of taxi drivers worldwide are grasping, dishonest, often not averse to thuggery and are in cahoots with their licensing authorities!

Well there was a 20 year gap between visits. The "authorities" make enough noise about tackling these rip offs so it is not that unreasonable to visit again in 20 years.

Well indeed, some are supported by wise, profoundly well informed and realistic thinkers. For example, Jewish controlled space lasers being deployed to start forest fires, various school shootings being false flag operations, and Hilary Clinton sitting in the basement of a Pizza Restaurant murdering children and drinking their blood. Frankly, any such theory, without a shred of real provable evidence to support it and claiming a conspiracy falls into the category of barking at the moon! Invariably the propagator is, as it seems here, deluded, detached from reality and totally lacking in empathy. Mr Hibberts legal team cannot surely believe his ravings? Suggestions that the Manchester Arena bombings, which killed 22 and injured over a 1000 were faked, scale new heights in morbid comedy.

That fireplace makes them look like the cast of "The Borrowers"!

Well, based on the article referenced in the original post. Of course I lack the fevered imagination to turn discussions of counterattacks to regain ground lost to an invading force with a plan to invade Russia.

Lots of money, and the trappings that goes with it. Harlan Crow has lots of money. Clarence Thomas wanted lots of money.

Twenty years ago they walked around with a sandwich board proclaiming "the end of the world is nigh". Everyone laughed at them. These days they have a laptop. We should still laugh at them. If they stop being risible, and start pursuing the sort of personal allegations this fellow is doing against these unfortunate people, injunction issued which if breached lead, rapidly, to prison.

These are discussions about US and NATO support for a potential counter offensive currently being planned to force the invaders from the territory they have seized since the invasion in February 2022, not plans for an attack on Russia which would have justified in any way the Russian invasion. There is a very major difference which you seem to have rather ignored.

Oh dear - where to start?