Good evening,

It looks like the rail strike is coming to an end or may even have come to an end: this being Thailand, nothing is really cut and dried. On the one had, firm action by the government has brought the SRT Union officials to the negotiating table; on the other hand, mind-like-a-steel-trap accepts that the safety problems are real. Whatever the truth (I think we know or at least can infer the truth), it seems very likely that the newspapers will not be mentioning the poor people inconvenienced by cancelled trains until the next time this all kicks off again (Let’s not mention this bring the troops in call, shall we?).

It is in no way and definitely not any kind of political action but the Office of the Attorney General has rejected the report from the National Anti-Corruption Commission into the police actions on October 7^th against the violent PAD mob that had illegally occupied Government House, causing so much damage and political instability. It remains to be seen whether the repot comes back again with additional people pricked out for prosecution for in no way politically motivated reasons but entirely according to the law.

Somebody track down the evil foreign rumour-monger – the SET is up 3.21 points! Eh? Oh.

My article Tragedies of Shakespeare: Othello has been published at Bookstove, while three new reviews have appeared at Bookideas: there is my review of John Le Carre’s Our Game, my review of Charles Stross’s Saturn’s Children and my review of Fredrik Pohl’s Gateway.

Back tomorrow.

Just sack him – appointing a manager younger than I am was never going to work, was it?