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Hardly surprising really (the anti Westerner mood) if "fun" consisted of throwing low denomination banknotes at girls on stage, to watch them scramble to pick them up!

Crossing the street in Bangkok is a risky undertaking anyway, with or without a Formula 1 race in progress!

Well, somebody shot up his car when it was parked outside a massage parlour... Perhaps not "evidence", but certainly an indication that he is not universally popular!

A very clear breach of the peace - the fellow is very obviously "openly Jewish"!

Two points: 1) Sunak is the Prime Minister not the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 2) Sunak and Cleverly (Home Secretary - the minister responsible for policing) can write as many letters as they wish. The Metropolitan Police Command Structure will ignore them. They know that there is to be an election within the year, they know that this government is toast, and they are looking towards making an accommodation with its successor - maybe already have!

Does the Iranian Embassy in Paris have a convenient balcony...

A comprehensive knowledge of Monty Python's Flying Circus is a great help in understanding the current American political circumstances. Perhaps "Pythonography" should be included in Ivy League University studies?

As long as they only slapped their hands in a proportional way! Imagine if you will, if Israeli gangs had crossed into, say Syria, early in the morning of the Feast of Eid, slaughtered 1500 Muslims in their homes, raped to death female children and burnt alive infants, before dragging several hundred hostages away, never to be seen again, and broadcasting those exploits over the internet. Would there be a "proportional response"? Would Western Media rush to interview, and understand the motivations of those who oversaw such an attack?

The "Mad Mullahs" (what an appropriate term) have been engaged in a slow burn conflict with Israel for decades. They run terrorism throughout that part of the world, with Israel as the main target. They own Hezbollah, are largely in control of Hamas, and are an active, not potential, existential threat to Israel. They do not share a border with Israel, other than by proxy with Lebanon and Syria. If the geography was different, and they did have a border they would have launched full scale conventional war long ago. Their great boast and the great threat is their emerging missile launched nuclear capability. Israel ignoring that will simply make no difference; so Israel has laid down a marker, shown they are aware, and have the capacity to react. In my opinion, and such predictions are just that, opinions, I suspect that Iran will not be able to resist the opportunity to launch nuclear missiles once they have them. They are not constrained by the moral and political constraints which hold sway amongst the worlds other nuclear armed countries (including Israel) which dictate no "first use". So I expect, sadly, Iran to initiate a nuclear exchange. The weapons will not be on the scale or in the quantity which would be involved in the much studied and modelled prospect of a superpower nuclear exchange. Israel has phenomenal (and phenomenally expensive) anti aircraft and anti missile defences, but some will get through, there will still be a lot of damage. Actually, I would argue that Iran's known Chemical and Biological agent capability would probably cause more casualties than the nuclear, albeit less dramatically. Iran's missile and nuclear capacity, along probably with it's communication and IT systems, will be destroyed by the Israeli response. Let's try and look on the bright (?) side, the Mullahs regime may collapse under that damage.

It is not the main issue? He has been charged with embezzlement of party funds - I would say that is fairly central to the issue of umh, embezzling party funds!

Iran launched a barrage of drones and missiles against Israel. Iran is very close, some say as close as six months, to putting together a working nuclear warhead for those drones and missiles. I don't think provocation comes into it - once they have the nuclear warhead Iran will, almost inevitably, threaten to use it if not use it. The Iranian regime has declared what it claims is a sacred mission to destroy Israel. They are a theocracy, one cannot comfortably assume that they do not mean it. Is it a provocation for Israel to demonstrate that they can reach into Iran if they want?

There is nothing complex about it - nothing at all. The Met is scared to enforce the law. They have been entirely intimidated by the HAMAS supporters. They are cowardly, gutless, completely pathetic. To suggest that a man is likely to cause a breach of the peace for being "openly Jewish" is like something out of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Donkeys years ago (when I had a proper MG), when driving in the rain the roof leaked so much a bag on your head was handy!

Works with Jockanese falling down water too!

Load the durian into containers. Metre gauge train to Nong Khai, transfer containers to standard gauge wagons ( quick and easy) send standard gauge train on to China. Job done, no need to build an expensive new railway, no need to owe China for generations.

Take a (new - you don't want your wine to taste of Kiwi!) shoe laces, tie a big knot in one end. With a skewer or screwdriver gently push the cork down past the neck of the bottle until it is floating in the wine. Ease the knotted end of the shoelace down past the cork. Firmly but gently withdraw the shoelace, it will bring the broken cork up through the neck of the bottle.

Tried that, but for all the good it did I might as well have shoved it up my arse!

Naive pedantry.

To suggest that the removal of Yingluck from the electoral process, and the formation of a government by the military was not a coup, but was a properly constituted move by an independent judicial system, and that her subsequent "disappearance" , held "under wraps" by the Junta before being "helped" to clandestinely cross the border was "going on the run" shows a remarkable degree of naivety, and perhaps an elastic interpretation of events to justify your personal political satisfaction with the whole process of defeating and removing democracy, and the establishment of Junta government; either way, it is "nonsense". The very simple truth is that both of them were standing as the leader of a party which the establishment perceived as a threat to their hegemony. They had won before and were very likely to win again. Both elections were destroyed by the establishment's guardians, the military and a manipulated judicial system. Both individuals, Thaksin and Yingluck were very popular, to jail them would have led to significant unrest and international opprobrium. So they were driven into exile.

Same day or into the freezer. Even the dogs chicken carcasses only get two days in the fridge (mind you that guarantees 4 dogs in a pile in front of the fridge door!)

Floated on Monday wasn't it? Plan to save it on Friday!

The traditional (old fashioned) metre gauge railway system in Thailand, may not be very fast, or "swish" but it is effective at moving large numbers of people cheaply and safely over long distances at times like this. In my opinion a fraction of the money planned to be spent on "high speed rail" from China would result in a much improved conventional rail system. Containers have largely simplified the transhipment of goods at "break of gauge".

Get delivering letters right first!

The corruption was exemplified by the removal of both Thaksin and Yingluck from power by the military in coups whilst the electoral process (elections) were happening, and it looked very much like they were on course to win; and of course the subsequent post coup " prosecutions". Thaksin took himself off, well aware that if he went into Junta incarceration he would never emerge alive. Yingluck was more tricky - popular nationally and well known internationally she "disappeared", her teenage son was effectively taken into care - remember "he must complete his Army Cadet training", and then she was basically driven to the Cambodian border and turfed out. In both cases the events leading to their exiles were engineered by the military (representing the establishment powerbase) and went against the norms of both the democratic and judicial processes, supposedly guaranteed by the constitution. Moreover they were, and remain, deeply unpopular. All of which, to my mind, makes the pearl clutching swooning outrage of the "Thaksin has never served his time" and "Yingluck was sentenced in absentia" brigade rather entertaining! Now, in order to maintain the unstable and fragile construct which maintains the unpopular and electorally shaky coalition in power, the military and establishment it serves have to swallow their pride and allow his (and likely her) return, to buy enough popularity to stave off the threat of the progressive movement. They know that they can ban Pita and dissolve his party but that movement will not go away. They have lost the young, Yingluck and Thaksin are a desperate and (must be) oh so bitter tasting attempt to keep the older generation. It has all rather come back to bite the bemedalled ones on the bum! Still looks good doesn't she!😍

Looks a bit rough - almost like he has been sleeping in his car for the last few days! It is of course difficult to discern exactly what is happening - and the truth as to corruption and degrees of corruption is almost irrelevant. The long running power struggle between these two candidates for control of the Police appears to have come to a head, and Pol Gen Kitrat does seem to have played his hand.