Channel 4’s Dirty Business shows why private companies cannot be trusted with vital services like water, says PAUL DONOVAN
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Twelve days of stupefaction: what next?
Those sickened at the spectacle of sycophancy that has been impossible to escape need only keep one thing in mind — there is no way King Charles III will evoke the support enjoyed by his predecessor, writes DAWN EVANS
King Charles III follows the State Gun Carriage carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, as it leaves Westminster Hall for the State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, London.
Washington’s unprecedented capture of the Venezuelan president was meant to demonstrate US power — but instead it has galvanised the Bolivarian movement and exposed the limits of the regime change agenda, argue ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
With our ruling class struggling to secure a new vehicle for power and the disintegration of the traditional party system, a volatile new chapter is opening, sharpened by war, austerity and electoral distortion, argues NICK WRIGHT
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
SO, it is all over bar the mopping up, which of course will be left to the army of invisible labourers which no-one will interview, film, clap or queue to see.
As the ranks of medal-festooned royals slink back to their secretive, shadowy, exclusive lairs where they’ll throw off their fake smiles and public-persona masks and slump into a pampered oblivion, the rest of the British populace will start to emerge from the weird 12 day through-the-looking-glass stupor; and face a reality hangover from hell.
Some may wonder as they groggily surface: “What the hell just happened?”
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