FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY Well I have had a surfeit of Bangkok demos and correspondents’ various versions of it, so in this week’s Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary I present a tongue in cheek piece by Allan Hall a former colleague on the Daily Mail many moons ago when newspapers hunted in packs.  Working on these […]

I COULD NOT GIVE A MONKEY’S UNCLE* As the world’s press continues to portray the current demonstrations in Bangkok as anti-democratic and one between the rich and middle class elites of Bangkok and salt of the earth working people in North East Thailand there are of course other considerations. Well, one of course is the […]

CABINET MINISTER, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACCUSED BY COUNTER CORRUPTION COMMISSION CROOKS OPERATING AS POLITICIANS (Pic: Boonsong) Anti-corruption officials in Thailand dropped a political time bomb today announcing that they would be charging fifteen people mainly government officials with corruption over Thailand’s rice trade. As thousands of anti-government demonstrators continued to blockade the capital Bangkok complaining of […]

‘YOU’RE NICKED!’ – SPC Bower caught on the loose again in Cambodia A former British Special Constable, who fled Britain while staying at a bail hostel under licence having served a sentence for paedophile offences, has been found wandering freely about in Cambodia having been jailed there too for sexually abusing young boys. Ian Paul […]

Aussie conman David Tyson exposed here on these pages for his Global -I-Care scam and property sharp dealing on the island of  Phuket has surfaced again – this time in Poland. After trying similar scams out in Vietnam he moved on to Britain, France and Germany and is now hobnobbing with politicians and businessmen in […]

I have lifted the followed in its entirety from Chiang Mai City News. I don’t know why, but I just loved it. I do not necessarily agree with it all. I am afraid there are a few four letter words in it and the author may not totally have caught the demographic of a foreign […]

Goudie mimics calling police A video tape handed in to this site shows how Brian Goudie, a former convict in Australia, who arrived in Thailand posing as a barrister, shopped a legal client to the Royal Thai Police condemning him to 15 months in jail apparently on a false charge of child sexual abuse. He […]

Flying Sporran’s Diary An impromptu bravery award goes out today to John Sparks of Channel 4 TV News in the UK.  While foreign journalists have already been attacked and insulted John Sparks was brave enough to take the stage and interview  Dr.Seri Wongmontha in front of the mob. ‘Yingluck Shinawatra has been democratically elected. Why […]

PROTESTERS CLOSE DOWN THAI CAPITAL Seven hours into the shutdown of the Thai capital Bangkok Prime Minister Yingluck Shinwatra today was reported to have called for talks with protesters to discuss reform proposals and a delay to the election. With the capital choked, and several ministries and the Stock Exchange either closed or about to […]

GOING DOWN THE BIO-FUEL ROAD ROAD – QUESTIONABLE FOREIGNERS AND CAMBODIAN OFFICIALS Officers of Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit have arrested a lawyer and a provincial official allegedly involved in a biofuel scam promoted by ‘cash for questions’ Peer Lord Laird. Greg Fryett (left) Lord Laird (right) The move follows the arrest of British businessman Greg Fryett, […]