Lawrence Osborne

Jan 31, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Lawrence Osborne

Someone somewhere must surely have calculated that Bangkok has more doctors and tailors per capita than anywhere on Earth. These two industries, healthcare and clothing, must account for a prodigious share of tourist revenues, and they both operate on similar principles: make the customer feel pleasant even as the results disappoint.

Nov 8, 2023 | spectator.com.au | Lawrence Osborne

For 12 years now I have been learning Thai from my maid, Pi Nong, who has been employed in our building for decades. It’s a much misunderstood relationship. Here the maid is an obligatory fixture, integrated into daily life for foreigners and Thais over the age of 45 and over a fairly modest income level.

Nov 8, 2023 | spectator.co.uk | Lawrence Osborne

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments For 12 years now I have been learning Thai from my maid, Pi Nong, who has been employed in our building for decades. It’s a much misunderstood relationship. Here the maid is an obligatory fixture, integrated into daily life for foreigners and Thais over the age of 45 and over a fairly modest income level. Or Unlock this article REGISTER...

Jul 19, 2023 | spectator.co.uk | Lawrence Osborne

Many of my friends, stranded by the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, have temporarily given up their film projects and settled down to write that hopeless novel which they could never finish before. Those film projects were more alluring – more necessary – than the lingering novels because they at least held out the prospect of one day bringing them, the openly despised writers, to the kind of fantasy scenarios towards which they have worked all their life.

May 9, 2023 | scribd.com | Lawrence Osborne |Oz Clarke |Ian Fleming

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