The street protests in Thailand and the unprecedented public criticism of King Maha Vajiralongkorn focus attention on an institution whose days, along with old-style feudalism, are fading, if not gone altogether.
Democratisation of education and information is now so much a part of daily existence, as natural as breathing, that we take these privileges for granted.
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