Testing the Test
Harrison George The Ordinary National Education Test (ONET) results this year are as disappointing as in previous years. Almost as disappointing as the wilful ignorance that produced the tests and...
View ArticleHistorical Immaterialism
Harrison George As if our non-elected Prime Minister didn’t already have little enough faith in democracy, Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal has gone and got himself elected as president of Chulalongkorn...
View ArticleComparisons are odorous Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 5
Harrison George A bomb goes off at Phramongkutklao Hospital and 25 are injured. The Prime Minister next day says that if such things go on, the election (in the most optimistic scenario at least 18...
View ArticleKorea Prospects
Harrison George How’s your arithmetic?In April this year, North Korea celebrated the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People’s Army. And it was no secret.USA Today’s headline was...
View ArticleThe terrors of tourism
Harrison George ‘Govt sets B3 trillion tourism target’ reads the Bangkok Post headline (together with a pic showing ‘Chinese tourists at Wat Phra Kaeo’ who have fair hair and big noses) (the dastardly...
View ArticleDyslexia Rules, KO?
Harrison George Two weeks before he was unleashed on the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump gave a speech in Bismarck, North Dakota, supposedly to outline his plans on tax reform. (A...
View ArticleReason and Logic Killed in Horrific Traffic Accident
Harrison George It’s rather nice of the Bangkok Post to ensure that we get a regular dose of capitalist economics through a biweekly op-ed from the Thailand Development Research Institute, a...
View ArticleAre we there yet ?
Harrison George So when are we going to get there?I told you. In about two hours.But you said that two hours ago. The farther we go, the longer it seems to take. At this rate I don’t think we’ll...
View ArticleTrump Diplomacy Inaction
Harrison George President Trump has just been to China.Just before he arrived, the trial of Taiwanese NGO worker Lee Ming-cheh was streamed online from Yueyang City Intermediate People’s Court in...
View ArticleWatch it
Harrison George A small tornado bursts through the door of the meeting room. And stops dead in its tracks.‘Where is everyone?’‘Sir?’‘Why is there no one here? There’s supposed to be a...
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If it doesn’t look like a duck and doesn’t walk like a duck, then it must be...
Harrison George Pandemonium reigned in parliament yesterday after the vote to choose a new Prime Minister descended into farce.After the House had failed to choose a Prime Minister from among the...
View ArticleYou’re never too old to learn (and you’re never too young for a test)
Harrison George To judge from the cracks and potholes, the soi hasn’t been resurfaced in decades. Maybe not since the emergency makeover when a daily motorcade of Mercs began transporting royal...
View ArticleBeware the Beware the Scam Scam
Harrison George They are a staple of social media.The latest that I received warned against a ‘new’ scam when you check into a hotel. You’ve handed your credit card to the reception desk who take...
View ArticleDemocracy has no price
Harrison George News item:National Security Council (NSC) secretary-general Wallop Raksanoh has “pledged to go after those who are financially supporting pro-election activists”. General Wallop...
View ArticleWould you know my name, if I saw you in heaven?
Harrison George Stephen Hawking got to the Pearly Gates only to discover that entry control had been outsourced to a Thai company.The entrance to heaven had been transformed into an excessively...
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