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Last words on two scourges of the Establishment
A tribute to Bob Crow, by ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER

Got an email from the producer of BBC Radio Four's obituary programme The Last Word the other day, asking me to write a tribute to Bob Crow, so I did.

Now you'd think that if you commission a left-wing political poet to eulogise a great radical trade union leader you'd kind of know what you're going to get, wouldn't you?

In these timid times, it seems not.

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