Drumbuie

Golly, when's the last time you travelled with a woman? In my family that would only count as a medium-sized suitcase.

How much better for voters to be influenced by the relentless stream of propaganda and disinformation emanating from opaque Tufton Street thinktanks funded by anonymous donors...

The word "Shinawatra" is superfluous in that sentence these days, alas. Just look at the antics of the SelfServatives in the UK.

I've sent a few birthday cards to the UK, normal post, it's taken them between a week and a fortnight to arrive and cost less than first class post in the UK.....which can also take between a week and a fortnight.

On the prohibited list is " haircutting, hairdressing or beauty treatments" - which must presumably include barbering. The French for beard is barbe - hence " barber" - so maybe there isn't a Thai word for it.

Er, it must be a while since you saw the inside of a British prison. 14 years of Tory cuts have left their mark there as well. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68283664

I blame The Simpsons. Once everyone had seen Homer Simpson as President, it was only a matter of time before Trump or, in the UK, Johnson, just for the giggles.

This is about extending the percentage of condo units in a block that are permitted to be owned by farangs.

If this operation began in 2018, those two charmers were 23 and 20, and their two accomplices still in their teens. I can't help thinking they're taking the fall ( in a UK not Thai jail, guys, it helps to read *all* the words) for someone older with a lot of capital behind them.

I suppose the idea that a man and a woman might actually like each other as *people* rather than bodies and/or sources of finance is completely alien to you?

They must be Schrödinger's goats.

65 yr old woman is unlikely to have a "40 to 50 yr old " grandson, surely?

Indeed, Thai language has many Sanskrit roots and the alphabet is derived from the South Indian Pallava alphabet. Unfortunately European history is taught as though nothing happening outside Europe matters and until Europeans arrived the rest of the world was living in mud huts. In reality, the Chinese were millennia ahead. Trading along the Silk Road brought many of their improvements to the West - their extensive hydrological knowledge, for example ( 4,000 years ago, they managed to tame the Yellow and Yangtze rivers to prevent disastrous flooding) and their inventions of paper and gunpowder.

In my youth, this happened because Barclays were funding apartheid in South Africa . Now it's genocide in Palestine.

Brexit was NOT the " democratic will of the people". It was a rushed, miscalculated attempt by David Cameron to outflank his extremist right wingers. It was not voted for by a majority of the electorate. There was no White Paper explaining what people were voting for. It was a shambles. I agree that this is not the Britain my parents fought for. They fought for democracy and the rule of law ( my father's words). They fought for freedom from fear of the knock on the door in the small hours ( my mother's words). Instead we have creeping fascism, curuption, cronyism, politicians blatantly lying and getting away with it, attempts to undermine the judiciary, one law for the rich and a country that is happily complicit in war crimes as long as one of the ruling party's donors is making money out of it. Thankful my parents did not live long enough to see this.

Absorption of orally ingested substances begins in the mouth, particularly the underside of the tongue.

Methinks your girlfriend needs to change him for someone with a heart.

Meanwhile, leaving Joseph Goebbels to spew his hatemongering in the Telegraph, we return to the real world of 2024 where, without foreign workers, the UK can't function: https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/02/uk-care-agencies-accused-of-exploiting-foreign-workers-caught-in-debt-traps

In international schools, the teacher pupil ratio isn't 1:30,: in my granddaughter's class it's about 1:5 and that's without including the excellent Thai teaching assistants. In her school the aim is not to ape the traditions of the snobby, repressive private schools of the UK and the USA. Every time family are invited to visit the school, I am impressed by how happy and confident the children are, and how proud they are of the work they're doing, how well they're socialised. Thee is no way any parent could replicate that nurturing and stimulating environment on their own.

Like many, I have two Thai bank accounts. One for my retirement extension 800k, the other for daily spending. Tasking Immigration with assessing total Thai income is not going to work, they'd all have to be retrained. But what *might* happen is that supplying a copy of a filed Thai tax return becomes part of the conditions for granting a retirement visa extension. But nobody knows yet. So this article appears only to be a crude way of drumming up trade for accountants in Thailand.

Wait till the osteoporosis kicks in as well. I simply don't understand why women want to do this to themselves or why anyone with a conscience would encourage and abet them Oh,wait . .is there a lot of money in it for somebody? A pharmaceutical company, for example?

Defence Chiefs of Staff have already rubbished this idea and said it's simply an electoral ploy. Without extra funding for defence (the Tories have cut the Defence Budget in real terms while wasting money on eg Rwanda and #HS2) the last thing the Forces need is an influx of disgruntled, untrained 18 year olds, and you can quite see their point. Conscripts need uniforms, housing, equipment. There isn't any. They don't even have enough for troops on active duty. No wonder the Chiefs of Staff are fuming. 14 years ago the UK was still anm respected actor on the international stage. Now it's a pitiable wreck of a country run by clowns who've feathered their own and their chums' nests at the expense of everyone else, where the seas and rivers are full of sewage ( and so is the Parliament). #NeverVoteTory

The British Women's Group runs a second hand book stall upstairs in the Royal Oak, Sukhumvit 33/1; the proceeds are donated to selected good causes in Thailand.

There is a distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Many thousands of Israelis are on the streets regularly protesting against the actions of their own government - are they anti-Semitic? Some Israeli government ministers have even had their fill of Netanyahu's actions - are they anti-Semitic?

A phone is pretty well essential in today's world - how else can you get and keep a job ? My maid had a second hand cheap Chinese phone that cost a few hundred baht; her child dropped it, it broke, and without it she was lost. So I bought her a new cheap Chinese phone and it was still less than 3000 baht.