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Stephen Colbert on Bush’s gaffe: ‘A refreshingly lighthearted confession to war crimes’

Late-night hosts discuss Bush accidentally calling the invasion of Iraq ‘wholly unjustified and brutal’, and Roe v Wade Stephen Colbert mocked an old target on Thursday evening: George W Bush, who gave a speech in Dallas on Wednesday for an event called “Elections – A More Perfect Union”, focused on how elections work. “And we’ve

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John Oliver on the power of US utility companies: ‘The only game in town’

The Last Week Tonight host digs into the profit motives of monopolistic utility companies and the regulators who are unwilling or unable to moderate them On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver tore into the utility companies that have near-monopolistic control over the US power grid, which set high prices and are prone to scandal. “Just

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‘RoboCop was like the American Jesus’ – Paul Verhoeven on his ultra-violent cult classic

‘Acting was important – but I can’t deny that Peter Weller’s chin was one of the main reasons we cast him’ Initially, I rejected the script because it was so different from what I’d been doing in the Netherlands. Later, on set, I was helped enormously by having one of the screenwriters, Ed Neumeier, with

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