King Maha Vajiralongkorn: Mad, bad, and dangerous to overthrow

King Maha Vajiralongkorn: Mad, bad, and dangerous to overthrow

Inside the debaucherous rule of Thailand's party king

The tweets, all 1.2 million of them posted by the Thai people, asked the same question: “Why do we need a king?” As Thailand struggled through the initial wave of the coronavirus pandemic while its king partied in a Bavarian hotel, it seemed, and remains, a vital question.

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