I’d like to recommend the New Mandala blog for its coverage of politics in South East Asia – its coverage of the Thai election has been superb.

As to the election itself, we now have a result, with a landslide win for Yingluck, and everyone is being responsible for the moment.

Questions of course remain of how well Pheu Thai will ride the social reform tiger while placating both the conservative old money parts of Thai society and the army …