Gideon Rachman's blog: I am sure that if you are stuck in Bangkok airport, the theoretical implications of Thailand's political crisis do not rank very high up your list of concerns. Nonetheless, they are fascinating.

Remember all those theories about how the emergence of an urban middle-class is a force for democratisation, because the bourgeoisie will demand political rights? Well, in Thailand the precise opposite is happening. The urban middle classes are rising up and demanding that democracy be rescinded.