Smoke rises over Bangkok where worsening political unrest has prompted the UK Foreign Office to issue a travel warning. Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty ImagesThailand's Bitter Divisions Widened By Bloodshed -- Greg Sheridan, Real Clear World/The Australian
Whatever the immediate outcome of Bangkok's spasm of violence, the conflict in Thai society is now deep, wretched and bitter. The demonstrations and violence of recent weeks have polarised the population. One of the strangest things is the way the Red Shirt demonstrators have won the public relations war.
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