GOUDIE FRUSTRATED AT FAILURE TO SELL AND NOW UNSAFE IN KOH SAMUI -claims – Flying Sporran’s Mid-week Diary. Tittle tattle, conjecture, and some cold hard facts Goudie ‘raising concerns about Drummond’s freedom’. Reports reaching this office say that Brian Goudie, whose business as a ‘lawyer’ has been seriously hampered since he has been exposed repeatedly […]
Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it Infamy! – Thai Airways Press Officer- Did he break crisis communication rule to speak?- Expelling PR gnats Oh god!, I’m thinking, I hope it’s not this guy’s first day in the press office. I hope his back is covered. If not it’s his last day in PR anywhere. Could […]
We know the newspapers and online news-sites in Pattaya can be pretty trashy but I felt really angry today at seeing this on the Pattaya Daily News website. Under the headline ‘Here We go Again, Another Foreigner Seen Walking Around Naked’ the website shows an eighty year old man semi-naked in a police station. Quite […]
I am afraid I put the cat among the pigeons when recently I announced I was planning to leave Thailand and return to the UK in the New Year. But I should re-assure readers that contrary to bowing out quietly I will be ratcheting up in the coming months…and the first to get the treatment […]
A compliment this week comes from LGT Security and Investigations. They are singing my praises in their latest issue of the Security Briefing for Thailand. It seems they were impressed with the work that I put in on the Leo del Pinto murder case. I don’t think I am guessing by saying LBG is one […]
PLUS – FATHER OF MURDERED CANADIAN LENDS SUPPORT TO FLYING SPORRAN The Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary A bit of a gruelling week last week. Flew up to Chiang Mai for CBC to cover the verdict and judgement on the policeman accused of murdering backpacker Leo del Pinto in Pai, Mae Hong Son in 2008 while […]
ผู้ทรงอิทธิพลกับชายชุดสูท – Special Offer! Ever wanted to explain to your Thai wife why you have been checking in at www.andrew-drummond.com. every day? Ever needed to explain those bursts of giggle fits and roars of deep down belly laughing? Ever wanted to explain why foreigners are continually baffled about community policing down Pattaya way? Or laughed […]
ASPARAGUS WAR – THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT! Plus Drew Noyes’ vehicle of self aggrandizement, the illegal Pattaya Times bombs, as 3 am ranting American tries to deflect attention from his fraud cases. And the latest Noyes Rants – Only here (er, and on Facebook and anywhere they will be accepted) Flying Sporran’s […]
Oh the humiliation of it all. Students at Kasetsart University in Bangkok have, as this picture shows, been humiliatingly forced to wear anti-cheating helmets during exams. This is apparently only a deterrent from copying from your next door neighbour’s paper. Cheating is getting so sophisticated nowadays that the flapping horse blinders won’t do much except […]
PHOTOSHOP TAKES THAI LIBEL WAR TO NEW HEIGHTS AS AMERICAN FOUNDER OF PATTAYA RAG ACCUSES BRITISH JOURNALIST OF BEING ‘NEO-NAZI ON THE RUN.’- Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary- Drew Noyes, the founder of the Pattaya Times newspaper in Thailand, who faces two charges of extortion and fraud in the local courts, has seemingly ceased hiding behind […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.