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All Power Does What?
Tim Turnbull
It’s a shallow, slippery step; a trap
that sets you tumbling all the way
from mere dissembler, like Grant Shapps,
to fully fledged Duvalier;
from duck island expenses cheat
to something rather scarier:
an unremitting and complete
Tiberius, or Beria.
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