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Indeed, I believe that they have some rather comfortable houses, in which ex premiers can live a comfortable retirement, with appropriate domestic help and security provided! And making a 74 year old do basic training with soldiers, well, talk about moving from the sublime to the ridiculous!

No it is not a deflection. It is very relevant that Guterres wrote and published this letter, but has not seen fit to to do the same regarding other (Muslim) states killing civilians indiscriminately and in much greater numbers in other recent conflicts in the region. An entirely valid comment. The real hurt, I suspect, is the extent to which the fighting has revealed the close connection between Hamas and many of the UN agencies, UNRWA for example, to all intents and purposes an arm of the Hamas regime, actively involved in preparing and commissioning acts of terror against Israel.

One can't help wandering where António Guterres' letters were expressing concern over the slaughters many many thousands of people in Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and umpteen other places? Lost in the post perhaps - I understand that there are problems with the New York mail system.

In other news, TAT to concentrate on domestic tourism as numbers of foreign visitors decline...

It is probably a good idea, if you are going to do " cut and paste journalism", to cut from relevant materials? The wranglings over Bobby Charlton's funeral arrangements are hard to connect with a flight diversion in South East Asia! Don't have sub editors on Thaiger do you!

That reminds me - December 15th? Oh yes PEA bill is due!

Ah, the routine weekly TAT plasterman! As the late Kenn Dodd might have said:"Tatifilarious"!

She will be able to show you the one her older sister " mislaid" before she got on the bus to Pattaya!

The whole business is - farcical, verging on bizarre. My analysis, with which you are of course entitled to disagree, is an attempt to place it in a context which perhaps shows it is no more bizarre or farcical than the events which initiated it. Unless of course, you are suggesting that discussion of the whole business should be confined within boundaries which you define as relevant. That of course would mean that any discussion would have to run along lines you ordain - perhaps what you really mean?

Or indeed how some will ignore the essential facts, yet clutch at any allegation to justify the denial of democratic government, the cancellation of elections, and the removal and replacement of civilian elected politicians with generals and the whole paraphernalia of junta government!

Didn't they have to close the airport on a couple of occasions? They certainly had to here in Chiang Rai! Anyway, he should know all about ineffectual enforcement of laws!

It demonstrates that the whole business back to the first coup to remove him and the Junta government which replaced him was a politically motivated farce - driven by the entrenched establishment whose policies, access to the nations wealth and power, he and his government threatened. The political tables have turned, and his faction is in the ascendant. Hence the current farce. My "history lesson" is relevant in as much as it demonstrates that this is a long running rather than a purely contemporary travesty. Poking fun at "the Benny Hill of Farang political commentators" was merely the icing on the cake!

Ah, the white man's burden! Your extraordinary, almost (perhaps it actually is) obsessive hatred of the man, and delight at his being overthrown by the right wing military is well known and exhaustively documented; together with your complete contempt for the Thai electorate. Although for some time now it has verged on the entertaining - you have become to critical observation of the Thai political scene what Benny Hill was to cerebral comedy! Perhaps it is time again to point out once again, he was repeatedly elected in consecutive elections, and overthrown by the military when it looked like he was about to score another resounding victory. The same happened to his protege, his sister. He went into exile because his enemies, then ascendant, would have killed him. He, and his sister were subsequent to their disposal, tried and sentenced in courts which had more than a whiff of a political taint. He remained popular within Thailand, there was never any doubt that if allowed to stand he would run again. The rest of the grown up world recognised Junta justice when they saw it. That is why he was free to roam the world for so many years, untouched by any sanctions, unworried at any attempts to return him to Thailand. The current Thai political construct, although in so many ways a discredited fudge, recognises that, and makes it inevitable he will be pardoned and released. His sister is likely to return as well. The Thai population regard this as inevitable, and rather seem, if they are concerned at all, to approve. I await with bated breath your "neo-orgasmic reaction" to these events - Benny Hill, prepare for your grand finale!

I use these - try to eat all the jam first, it makes the beer taste a bit funny! If I have got company coming over I soak them for an hour or so to get the labels off!

An unpopular move - our bold constabulary will have had to provide a presence after it gets dark!

Absolutely. Masks help prevent you from spreading whatever you may have to other people. That is why staff in operating theatres wear them. Hand washing, sanitizer and good hygiene practices are what help prevent you from catching it.

Perhaps because the population are equally keen on them!

"Immigration police promotions dogged by rumours of nepotism". Surely not, I am shocked, shocked I tell you!

I've long held that the main benefit of wearing a mask was that it acted as a physical reminder to people to follow the other (far more effective) protocols such as washing hands thoroughly and frequently, using hand sanitizer spray, and maintaining your distance from people.

The old style " hail in the street" taxi service has simply been superceded for all planned journeys by the likes of Grab and Bolt. They are about as relevant to public transport as steam locomotives are to mass transit rail systems!

Couldn't make it in that morning - 2 hour wait for a taxi...

Which is perhaps what the immigration office would like, having nice warm convenient relations with the agents and so on...

If you have a system where the ultimate authority for such decisions lie with the prime minister, then you can hardly complain when he chooses to exercise that authority. Or is the committee concerned that they may have to return certain envelopes?

Being so very careful of the backgrounds against which they are photographed! Pictures four and five appear to be a rare sighting of the "Four Slappers of the Apocalypse"!

Oh, it's much more than that! Gently does it, one step at a time...