<p>In the days before the channel tunnel and Ryanair, most travel in and out of the United Kingdom was by ferry. &nbsp;So fogs in the English Channel seriously disrupted communications between Britain and the rest of Europe. &nbsp;One pea-souper gave rise to the probably apocryphal London headline: &lsquo;Fog Isolates Continent&rsquo;. &nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;<br /> Prime Minister Cameron has just done the same thing.<br /> &nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;And you got worried when the Minster of Information and Communication Technology said that hitting &lsquo;like&rsquo; or &lsquo;share&rsquo; on a potential l&egrave;se majest&eacute; posting on Facebook would land you in court. That should be the least of your worries, as a recent prosecution reveals.</p>

<p>Following the example of communities who suffered from the recent floods, ordinary Thais are resorting to direct action to dismantle barriers that block the free movement of wealth, which is artificially bottled up among the elite.</p>

<p>In a verdict that shocked many for its severity, the Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a former high-ranking government official to 20 years in jail for being unusually poor.</p>

<p>I am beginning to lose the plot.</p> <p>John Terry, captain of Chelsea and England, is an all-round typical football hero. He has bonked a team mate&rsquo;s girl friend, demanded cash payment for access to Chelsea&rsquo;s training facilities (which he donated to charity when he was found out), and has now been accused of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand when Chelsea recently played Queen&rsquo;s Park Rangers. The allegations are being investigated by the Football Association and the Metropolitan Police.</p>

<p>This is unjust.</p> <p>In flood-ravaged Bangkok, I am able to live comfortably with minor disruptions. The electricity works, the piped water runs clear and the phone lines stay connected. I can get to the post office, the bank and the doctor&rsquo;s, where services are more or less normal. The newspapers are delivered on time, if a bit thinner than normal, and I can still order a pizza to the door, though some items are temporarily off the menu.</p>

<p>The decision by the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to put to a referendum the bail-out deal negotiated with the Eurozone and the IMF has not gone down well.</p>

<p>&nbsp;Rescue workers were diverted from flood relief work yesterday to deal with the collapse of a 6 storey condominium in the Thong Lo area. The tragedy was initially blamed on &lsquo;overloading&rsquo; the upper floors of the near-new structure.</p>

<p>The most serious repercussion of the devastating floods has undoubtedly been on the economy. &nbsp;Damage caused by the flooding ran into the billions of baht, and while individual citizens have borne the brunt of this cost, the government has also been hit hard, if only for the huge amounts spent in flood prevention efforts, many of which of course proved futile.<br /> &nbsp;</p>

<p>This &lsquo;Occupy Wall Street&rsquo; thing is simply getting out of hand. The media showed admirable restraint in ignoring this foolish prank when it started in September, effectively pretending that the demonstration did not exist. But now, more news outlets are mistakenly beginning to give it the &lsquo;oxygen of publicity&rsquo; as the Sainted Margaret Thatcher said of IRA propaganda.</p>

<p>The revelation that the Twitter and Facebook accounts of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have been hacked has increased suspicions that other parts of the government apparatus have also fallen foul of cyber criminals.</p>

<p>Sacred Heart&rsquo;s &lsquo;Remedial European History &ndash; World War II (Holocaust)&rsquo; was always going to be a difficult class. Class size was almost doubled by the &lsquo;observers&rsquo; that the school administrators had invited in a desperate measure to escape even more criticism over an incident for which they had already disclaimed all responsibility.</p>