Good evening,

Despite suggestions to the contrary, drivers from the Union of the State Railways of Thailand (SRT) are maintaining their industrial action over the unsafe nature of the trains in the south. True to form, the super-privileged rich kid (never knowingly responsible for a useful day’s work) Abhisit Vejjajiva has threatened to ‘punish’ those drivers who took leave in order to make their protests. Police and armed goons have been used to ‘seize’ a train from where it had been driven.

The Abhisit regime is once again threatening to use force against unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators. Government spokespersons are busy spreading lies about the intentions of the demonstrators, with the full support of media lackeys.

Amusingly, the papers are still full of stories about the dread twin bugbears of Khun Thaksin and Khun Hun Sen – both of whom effortlessly overshadowed the recent ASEAN Summit with a few well-chosen comments. Disgraced former Interior Minister and current Deputy Prime Minister (integrity? Whassat?) Suthep Thuagsuban has been mouthing off as has flap mouthed criminal Kasit Priromya, still bizarrely drawing a salary as Foreign Minister despite facing terrorism charges for his role in the violent and illegal seizure of the two international airports. You couldn’t make it up – I was in Australia when Oasis came for a tour a few years ago and the media was being a bit sniffy and ticket sales apparently were not promising – then the boys performed a few stunts on the plane over (offering to fight, getting drunk etc) and sales went through the roof, media attention became intense etc and so on and so forth.

I think that since the last time I posted these have become available: Tragedies of Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra and Tragedies of Shakespeare: Coriolanus.

Back tomorrow.

A slightly less rubbish performance is not really grounds for optimism.