If the Bangkok governor had been doing his job, charges of corruption would not have come as a surprise. Virtually all of his predecessors at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) had to deal with at least one major corruption scandal at some point in their tenure, so Apirak Kosayodhin could not really say he did not see it coming.

STOPPAGE TIME: Hi again, from your old friend named Graft

Dear Prime Minister Thaksin Show-a-lot(tra), First of all, hope you don’t mind me giving you this new surname. I think it’s cute and goes well with the present political comedy programme UBC is airing at the moment.