The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

Showing posts with label South East Asia. Show all posts

Showing posts with label South East Asia. Show all posts

Monday, 30 July 2018

Not True Communism - the left and Cambodian genocide

It was in 1980 when I first encountered the Western academic response to the Khmer Rouge, Angkar and Pol Pot. This was something of an eye-o...

Thursday, 13 October 2016

King Mongkut and the saving of Thailand's independence and monarchy.

Doesn't look anything like Yul Brunner David Bassett who taught me South East Asian history at Hull in the early 1980s hated the mu...

Thursday, 7 April 2016

So is it democracy or a chimera of democracy?

The EU's approach to decision-making that is? As I understand it, the European Commission is the bit of the EU that proposes the l...

Thursday, 6 June 2013

Benevolent lying...

**** A wonderful observation by Dan Murphy about the IMF and World Bank: Over the years current and former employees of both groups ha...

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