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From so bad it made you wince to so iconic you couldn’t stop laughing, here are your decidedly mixed feelings about the latest season of the royal drama

The UK’s most active period of privatisation saw health and safety disasters and fatalities increase dramatically. In recently published research, we identified 27 multifatality disasters between 1979 and 1997 leading to 763 deaths. These figures were the highest compared with three other European countries.

How much of the new Netflix hit is fact, and how much is complete and utter fiction?

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

NOBODY could fail to be impressed by The Crown (Netflix) when it started six years ago. Even the most fervent anti-monarchist had to grudgingly concede that it was prestige television.

The fourth episode of the fifth series sees the Queen, played by Imelda Staunton, reflect on the scandals and heartbreak of 1992 in her Ruby Jubilee speech

What Peter Morgan got right, what he might have taken some dramatic licence with... SPOILERS AHEAD

House of the Dragon star Matt Smith, Game of Thrones actor Tobias Menzies and Oscar-nominated Jonathan Pryce have all played the Queen's husband in different seasons of the Netflix series

It might be ‘only’ a TV show, but the boundaries between history and make-believe need to be clear, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins