March 2016

HOWARD MILLER CALLS IT A DAY –  BUT HE HAD A ‘BLAST’. Thailand’s most famous Foreign Tourist Policeman – and former Honorary British Consul Howard Miller has announced he has returned home to Britain after selling up his assets. Howard Miller, who shot to mild fame after featuring over and over again in the controversial […]

OR HAVE HOOTERS DOLLIES NOW CHEERED HIM UP? Has Richard Barrow, the most prolific full time blogger in Thailand turned? I was shocked to read on Twitter yesterday that former schoolteacher Richard seems to be less enamoured with Thailand the ‘Land of Smiles’. This message seemed to come with a pronounced frown: If anyone could […]

ANONYMOUS GROUP BREAKS OUT YOUNG NEW ZEALANDER  IMPRISONED WITHOUT SEEING A LAWYER, INTERPRETER OR EVEN JUDGE – AND ‘POLICE LIED’. A young New Zealand tourist, who was jailed without entering a plea and without seeing a judge, has escaped Thailand and is now safely black home – a clandestine group calling itself ‘Lifeline’ has confirmed. […]

A British oil platform superintendent who took on Drew Noyes, a phony American lawyer who set up a business making cash out of foreigners in Thailand, was today formally acquitted of libel at Pattaya Provincial Court. Cooper – heading home Ally Cooper’s alleged crime was to share a link on Facebook relating to a story […]

IS NET CLOSING IN SERIAL FRAUDSTER POSING AS OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN? Scot Brian Goudie, formerly known as Goldie,has been spotted out shopping in Siam Paragon, Bangkok, after vacating his ‘Key Bar’ in Pattaya when a warrant for his arrest was issued. The phony British barrister was spotted this afternoon at Siam Paragon with his latest […]

FREAK TWIN AND SLAVERY CONNECTIONS  Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary In response to a reader’s request for good news I offer the following. The North Carolina town of Mount Airy has linked hands with Samut Songkhram on the Gulf of Thailand to become ‘sister’ cities – and officials in Thailand ‘are very excited about it’ according […]

BUT IF YOU’VE LOST YOUR LIFE SAVINGS THIS MAY NOT CONSOLE YOU. Wood The personal financial guru of the Bangkok Post has been indicted by the Thai Securities Exchange Commission along with eight other ‘financial advisors’  for operating securities businesses without licences. Andrew Wood, who was afforded a regular financial column in the Bangkok Post’s […]

The Thai Government has now admitted what we have known all along. It is going to strictly control the foreign media in Thailand and those journalists guilty of ‘inaccurate reporting’ will have their visas revoked and possibly much more. Inside Khun Sa’s camp with a typewriter The military led government has introduced new visa laws […]