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Russell Brand

I see her in her hairy helmet, condescending on Nationwide, eviscerating eunuch MPs and baffled BBC fuddy duddies with her General Zodd stare and coldly condemning the IRA. And the miners. And the single mums. The dockers. The poll-tax rioters. The Brixton rioters, the Argentinians, teachers; everyone actually.

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The speaker recalls a harsh television portrait of a woman and lists the groups she is imagined condemning, ending with everyone. The accumulating description conveys a hostile political assessment rather than a neutral account of each group or event.

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