Williams thinks it's important. I've been watching those gunflashes out there. They've all been to the east or southeast. We've been thinking the war was out there...but I saw single gunflashes...four of them...about south southwest, just before daylight.

Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.

‘Perhaps you would like to tell me what kept you?’ ‘Not really, sir.’ Something of a gasp ran around the form-room. This was going it a bit strong, even for Healey. ‘I beg your pardon?’

In a country where corruption is endemic, no evidence has been presented that Ms Yingluck took any money from the rice scheme, which in 2012 and 2013 cost Thailand billions of dollars. But a state-appointed committee last year ordered her to pay the fine, finding she was to blame, even though it was government policy.