
Published on August 27, 2007
Tune in to any broadcast of a Manchester City game and there he is in his VIP box. Check out any online newspaper and his picture will be lurking on the homepage.
If he's not issuing a statement of his own, he's being discussed in a courtroom. His name appears in the sport tabloids at least once a week, and somehow he's even found his way onto the cover of The Nation's Life section today.
He also made a heck of a dent in the referendum results considering he was half a world away. "Where are you, Thaksin?" He was standing next to the ballot box in every polling station in the Northeast! Spooky.