David Hopkins

David Hopkins is a researcher focused on social justice, living in Melbourne. He previously worked as a journalist and editor in Thailand.

David Hopkins 15 Nov 2021

Thailand’s regressive royal insult law

The kingdom’s youth and others are speaking out about their monarchy, at great personal expense.
David Hopkins 12 Jul 2021

Covid crisis deepens in junta-ruled Myanmar

Patchwork restrictions haven’t contained the virus. And now the danger is spilling over the border to neighbours.
David Hopkins 27 May 2021

Thailand’s overcrowded prisons hit by Covid-19 surge

Amid one of the world’s highest incarceration rates, an outbreak was always a risk. But the government has struggled.
David Hopkins 26 Nov 2020

Myanmar’s military-backed opposition party stares into political abyss

An electoral failure might be a repudiation of the military’s influence in politics – but not its irrelevance.
David Hopkins 16 Oct 2020

Progressive politics in Thailand’s polarised polity

A new “hyperleader” has capitalised on the mood of a younger generation fed up with being patronised.
David Hopkins 24 Jul 2020

Book review: The memory of a massacre in Thailand

Survivors and perpetrators alike have preferred silence as a way of coping with a traumatic past.