Flying Sporran

BUT THE MAN FROM NATIONAL FRUIT – HE SAY YES! Battling workers’ rights campaigner Andy Hall who is being sued till kingdom come by the Thai conglomerate National Fruit is having trouble again with the local mission. The British Mission, that is in Wireless Road. ‘The Best Consular Service in the World’ The Consular Offices […]

Mixed messages are coming from Brian Goudie currently holed up in Baan Lamai on Koh Samui. His Facebook entries are becoming more and more weird. Take this for instance published today. ‘I may look calm but in my head I have killed you 3 times’. I am not sure to whom he is addressing this, […]

OK! SO THEY DIDN’T LIKE THE MUSIC! BUT HANG ON HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS LATEST SHARE OFFERING! It used to be one of the trendiest bars in Bangkok, maybe it still is, – but now ‘Q’Bar just off the city’s Sukhumvit Road is coming in for an internet slagging – and being linked to […]

FLYING SPORRAN’S DIARY British citizens who are not enamoured with the help they get from the British Embassy in Bangkok will not be surprised to read today that the British government makes £56 million a year just by keeping people on hold on the telephone. I laughed my socks off when I read today’s Daily […]

NOYES PRODUCES THE ‘MICHAEL JACKSON’ DEFENCE IN EXTORTION TRIAL.- David Hanks at the clinic David Hanks, the former owner of Masquerades Brothel in Melbourne, is being used by controversial American Drew Noyes, as his ‘get out’ from a charge of conspiring to extort a beauty clinic in Pattaya out of millions of Thai baht. In […]

The ranting ‘legal firm’ boss and former publisher of the Pattaya Times has now taken to accusing a supporter of this site of being a drugs dealer.  In an astonishing outburst on Facebook, Drew Noyes, who together with Wanrapa Boonsu, runs ‘One Stop Service Center’, formerly PAPPA Co. Ltd, in Pattaya, and who claims to […]

 A Flying Sporran Comment: Exports are down. Time and time again the current government and its politicians are being accused of having their fingers in the till. The Amnesty Bill is set to whitewash among others Thaksin Shinawatra, the former premier now living abroad having been convicted of corruption and abuse of power. Government M.Ps […]

FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY- (Picture: Home Sweet Home) I am sure someone is going to come back with a perfectly sensible answer but I am wondering why banks in Thailand give better mortgage rates for people buying news houses rather than people buying older ones. I had someone check the banks recently for mortgages and […]

BRITS BEHAVING BADLY – THAILAND TO GET NEW DOSE FOR BRITISH TELEVISION Brace yourselves for another massive dose of Brits behaving badly in Thailand. The new genre of British television which spends half the summer in Europe following Brits around the Costas and Greece –  now chases them during the winter months in Thailand. To […]

WILL LIFE, AS ANDREW DRUMMOND KNOWS IT, STILL EXIST? PLUS – PATTAYA PUBLISHER WARNED CASE WILL BE DISMISSED IF HE FAILS TO ATTEND. AND THERE’S MORE – NOYES MAKES HIS OWN TV DEBUT WITH RUSSIAN WOMEN, A RETIRED SERVICEMAN AND THE BOSS OF THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED FOR EXTORTION! Amerikanets v sluchayakh moshennichestva […]