2013

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 […]

(Pic Walter Douglas but he will have changed a lot since this Amsterdam picture) ISLAND BLUES! Plus: Will Drew Noyes and Brian Goudie now be denounced in Britain? Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary There is a Clydeside expression which goes ‘Y’aff a yat? What yat y’aff’. Which translates roughly as ‘Prey tell me have you just disembarked […]

The Australian Crime Commission has today been blowing its trumpet a little bit, but wisely not too much, in claiming credit for the closure of a ‘boiler room’ in Bangkok in April this year.  The operators of that boiler room (illegal share trading house) were, the ACC claimed, responsible for stealing $50 million from Australian […]

IS THAILAND – ‘THE LAND OF THE FREE’ – FIRST COUNTRY TO SET UP ‘THOUGHT POLICE’? Computer crime police in Thailand have warned the public that if they click on ‘Like’ in certain posts in Facebook they could face trial and imprisonment. The message is aimed at people who might ‘like’ a change of government […]

‘GOLDIE OF THE BAILEY’S’* HONG KONG STASH – It’s a staggering amount for a wee jessie of a chiseller but information coming into my office suggests that while working in Thailand Brian Goudie deposited in his HSBC account in Hong Kong the equivalent of 23 million baht- £475,643.89 at today’s rates. This was for one […]

THAI ISLAND IN CONTROL OF GANGSTERS -CLAIMS C4 AUTHORITIES TURN BLIND EYE TO ‘EXTORTION OR SLAVERY’ A shocking British Television Channel 4 documentary about the kidnapping, enslavery and extortion of Rohingya refugees disappeared from the net for a short period today so programme executives could conceal the identity of a man who may be placed […]

Tomorrow August 10th will mark thirteen years since the murder and rape of Welsh  backpacker Kirsty Jones, 23,  in Chiang Mai.  Currently Dyfed Powys Police are planning to re-interview the British backpackers who were staying at the Aree Guest House in Chiang Mai. Actually they do not have the authority to do so. They have […]

‘We’re waiting outside. We’ll be coming for you and your wife!” A British scientist who took on the Director of Thailand’s National Innovation Agency for copying his academic thesis has had to report death and kidnap threats to his local police station in Bangkok. Professor Wyn Ellis said today that he was alarmed by telephone […]

CHILDREN’S BUNNY ‘MIFFY’ NOW ON HIT LIST OF PATTAYA TIMES FOUNDER. (Pic: ‘Oh sh@t! What have I done now?) Just when you believed an American called Drew Noyes could not possibly plummet new depths in his battle against his many victims today we can reveal that the ‘sex movie’ man he allegedly exposed on a […]

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 […]