Weekend – Diary. Last night the Flying Sporran was a fly on the wall at the Not-Thai-Visa,Com 10th Anniversary Party in the Castle Howchow Beach Resort Hotel near Khon Kaen. It became the ‘Not Thai-Visa’ Party when the executives of Thai Visa pulled at the last minute out having been declined free rooms. Unfortunately this left some […]

WILLIAM GOAD LIVED OPENLY IN PATTAYA WITH GYPSY BOYS WHILE ON RUN British paedophile William Goad, 68, a man accredited with some 3,500 cases of child sexual abuse has died in Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight in the U.K. Goad was arrested in Britain in 2004 after returning from Pattaya, Thailand, where he […]

  From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK. Glitter pictures by ANDREW CHANT. 18 October 2012.  The corridors of power at the BBC are being shaken again. First disgraced disc jockey Jimmy Savile is linked to child sexual abuse. Then the doubly-knighted Savile (He has a British and Papal Knighthood) was caught on camera happily defending Gary Glitter, aka […]

CASUALTIES OF WAR AS THAI ISLAND IDYLL BECOMES EXPAT LIVING HELL. Expats report: ‘A serious and imminent danger to lives’ . Sunday October 14 2012. A ‘Flying Sporran’ Holiday Island Paradise Special Report. (For this article in German please click here) Norbert Verweyen This is Norbert Verweyen, the boss of OK Properties on Koh Samui. Actually he is an opthalmic […]

Welcome to the new site. The reasons for the move, planned for a long time,  were both economic and practical, practical because the links are good, practical because we can take things like ads a lot easier, economical because comparatively large monthly fees have gone, and its faster. (Update: 11/10/12) Please bear with the glitches. […]

  Flying Sporran drank with fellow journalist! Hired lawyer accused by a ‘cannibal and serial killer’ who ‘stuffed and mounted six of his children’.   Hired lensman who magically shoots from kindle! Flying Sporran’s Media Self-Watch October 9 2012. A new website has appeared on the internet purporting to expose The Flying Sporran, his former Thai lawyer and […]

DID BRIT CUSTOMERS SPONTANEOUSLY ATTACK? DID AUSSIE GO ARMED WITH PEPPER SPRAY? – OR IS THERE SOMETHING MORE TO THIS? A simple story of everyday folk in Phuket. PLUS  The Flying Sporran’s Wining and Dining Section. October 6 2012. Some controversy is raging in Rawai , Phuket, where British ‘fund manager’ Neal Davies known by the nickname […]

Nuclear sub commander? Global Property Magnate, Royal Marine Commando? Or Tupperware Salesman? Take your choice. Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary October 4 2012 They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so you can imagine how delighted I was to see the birth of a new website called andrewdrummondbangkok.net. Obviously some financial wizard has bagged the […]

Torquay grandmother may have been targeted – fear From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK, 30 September 2012 This is the alleged ”killer wife’ – Wilaiwan Phillips – who has been charged with conspiracy to murder her husband Stephen Phillips – gunned down in remote north east Thailand five weeks ago. And today exclusive documents show the countdown to his murder. They reveal that Phillips, 59, […]

BNP MEMBER FACES FIRING SQUAD 28/09/2012 A young British father found guilty of drugs smuggling has been sentenced to death by a court in Indonesia. Gareth Dane Cashmore, 33, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire received the sentence for attempting to smuggle 6.5kg of crystal methamphetamine into the country. Cashmore, a former roofer, had originally been sentenced […]