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Farage’s Political Earthquake Begins to Rattle Britain’s Foundations
Personally, I have never voted Labour in my life so I am no Starmer fanboy but when I look across the various options for UK leader I see no talent whatsoever; most are simply grifters furiously milking the sickness of populism for all its' worth. Our politics is so very badly poisoned at all levels. -
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Tourism Thailand Vows to End Dual Pricing Amid Growing Tourist Backlash
All your arguments regarding western dual pricing being fair, while Thailand's in many cases are not, are based on someone establishing local residency to avoid the dual pricing. A foreign college student could become a local resident. Yes, they could. In Pennsylvania, though, for example, that takes a full year. So, the first year the foreign student is studying, he or she is paying the foreign nationality rate--dual pricing by nationality. A foreign national in this country and a foreign national in that country could become a local resident, you say. Of course they could--and, as I keep saying, that's a whole separate issue. The fact that some countries offer eventual local residency to get around dual pricing does not erase the fact that they have dual pricing in the first place. The subject of the thread is dual pricing and tourist backlash, not local resident backlash. I fully-understand that local foreign residents in Thailand, and thereby not tourists, in many cases must pay foreign tourist prices, without the opportunity to become local residents, which is unlike many western countries where they have the opportunity to eventually become local residents and secure local resident pricing. What Thailand does with its local residency laws and with its dual pricing, though, is also a separate issue from dual pricing elsewhere. I've given plenty of examples of western dual pricing initially by nationality alone but you asked for another one in your above post, so here is one below. You'll note that Switzerland, Norway, and some other non-Euro nationalities are singled out to get the reduced entrance fees, while other nationalities, such as the USA and Thailand, are left out. So, Swiss national, reduced rate, USA national, not reduced rate. That's dual pricing based on nationality alone, and with the added distinction of some non-EU nationalities being favored over other non-EU nationalities. The reason Swiss nationals and the selected other countries are given the reduced fee makes sense to me, by the way. I'm just pointing it out as an example of western dual pricing solely by nationality. The example: Many Italian museums offer reduced entrance fees to citizens of Switzerland, often along with other non-EU countries. Specifically, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan are examples of museums that provide reduced rates for Swiss nationals, along with other non-EU countries like Norway and Liechtenstein. -
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Satirical Art Silenced: ‘Licence to Offend’ Exhibition Cancelled Over Fear of Offence
Why would anyone take the effort and spend the money to go to an exhibition of what you can find 100x as much of on the interwebs? Unless, of course, it's a vanity project... -
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Where to get the Bangkok Post?
No, it is not free. The free version is only a fraction of the complete paper. You can subscribe to the full online version for 4,700 Baht per year. -
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US Greenlights $50 Million in Military Aid to Ukraine Following Landmark Minerals Agreement
I support the $50 million in aid, but not requiring Ukraine pay us (the USA) back for that with their minerals. We should be providing the aid without any conditions. 😞 -
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Accident Dramatic Skid: Air Force C-130 Veers Off Samui Runway
All those DEI ladyboy brake mechanics must've been fired! 😄
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