Thailand: the last rigged election?

For more than 20 years, Thailand has been locked in a struggle between the ‘royalists’ and the democrats, and in this past May’s election it reached an historic turning point.

If you insult King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand, or challenge the establishment, you’re in deep trouble, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Thailand’s Department of Public Relations, Office of the Secretariat of the Prime Minister

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 4, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—Lèse-majesté is the “crime” of offending the dignity of the king, and these days it has gone out of fashion. In the United Kingdom, you can say anything you like about King Charles the Turd (as an Irish friend calls him), and no one turns a hair...

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