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A grim foreshadowing of Britain today?
David Lynch’s classic 1980 film The Elephant Man has some cruel parallels with Britain in 2025, argues STEPHEN ARNELL
David Lynch pictured in 2007 [Public Domain]

A COUNTRY wreathed in pollution, the poor barely surviving, vicious “entertainment” designed to keep the plebs in their place, overwhelmed hospitals and a nation in thrall to a royal family of little obvious use, who continue to blithely exploit their subjects.

And across the pond, a US dominated by greedy, ruthless “robber barons.” To the east, Russia plans expansion, dreaming of ever greater empire.

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