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The Coronation: a profit and loss balance sheet
KEITH FLETT wonders, if the royal circus didn’t swell the public coffers with a wedge of fat tourist bucks as hoped, did it at least send our spirits soaring in a surge of national pride? Also no.
The Windsors in their new hats
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
IT HAS been reported that the coronation, which it might be remembered, has no formal purpose, cost £250 million.
Although King Charles is thought to have a personal wealth of £1.8 billion he did not contribute. Rather, with the cost-of-living crisis in mind surely, it was public money that was spent.
In return, there was a ceremony of largely made-up or reinvented traditions which at times looked more like a Monty Python sketch.
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