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Tony Benn's festival appearance: the politics is in the poetry

Once a fiery and somewhat divisive figure in British politics, Tony Benn, with his white hair and beard, these days appears almost biblical; a prophet belatedly recognised in his own land. In front of a packed and devoted audience at the Ledbury poetry festival, the man now voted Britain’s most popular politician delivered a characteristically uncompromising list, with a religious flavour, of w...

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