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How long has the royal farce got left?
As the prospect of a King Charles looms nearer, NICK WRIGHT looks at why the monarchy remains so important to the Establishment as public opinion increasingly turns against it
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
JUST OCCASIONALLY the intimate relationship between Britain’s royals and the Saudi Arabian dynasty — a family raised by the masters of the British empire from a nomadic existence to rule over the Arabian sands — is exposed to scrutiny.
When Turkish intelligence let it be known that they had audio on the 2018 dismemberment — by royal appointment — of the Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi the carefully contrived image of Mohammed Bin Salman as an enlightened ruler virtuously engaged in modernising his desert kingdom took a fatal hit.
The assassination was carried out by the personal entourage of Salman. After secret “trials” three of his top security officials were acquitted, a clutch of junior officials were condemned to death and as the tradition has it, pardoned according to the wishes of Khashoggi’s family whose consent to this procedure was no doubt hastened by a combination of sticks and carrots.
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