Hi everyone — I’m starting a new Substack newsletter on Thai politics & policy!
A tradition of societies everywhere is to gather around in a café and talk about the politics of the day — for keeping up to date, for debate, and for intellectual fulfillment. So beloved is this activity in Thailand that Thais have coined a special word for it: the sapha kafae — “coffee parliaments.”
And in this spirit, I’ve started The Coffee Parliament Substack to cover Thailand: a kingdom constantly plunged into political turmoil as power alternates between the ballot and the barracks, an upper middle-income country seemingly eternally on the verge of making the leap to developed country status, a bamboo shifting in the wind navigating the great powers.
If you’re already subscribed to this blog, I probably won’t be cross-posting every article over to this site, so please check out the Substack if you would like to continue reading my articles.
It is free to subscribe — I’ll see you there!
Ken | Mathis Lohatepanont 
Leave a comment.