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| | Amazon.co.uk: The New Statesman - The Complete First Series [1987]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Although I don't think The New Statesman was at its best until the start of the 3rd series, these first seven episodes have enough character and laughs in them to make this disc highly watchable. |
 | | Rik Mayall looking slim, young and charming, quickly asserts himself as Alan B'Stard, a, ahem, slightly right-of-centre Tory MP whose unspeakable acts of corruption and self-promotion are the basis for the plots and most of the laughs. |
 | | No act is too low for the rising star of the new right, burying nuclear waste under a primary school, sabotaging the cars of opponents, peddling hardcore pornography, anything as long as he stays in profit while staying out of the law courts. |
| www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005B1MQ (772 words) |
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