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9 May 2007updated 27 Sep 2015 4:08am

How to be completely irrelevant

You heard the one about the movie about the tortured young man?

By Martin Bright

Delighted to see that Harold and Maude is one the favourite films of David T over at Harry’s Place. I saw it at my school film club and then several times at university.

Very much a film about a tortured young man for tortured young men, but none the worse for that. The final scene always had my friend Antony weeping uncontrollably (you can see it on Harry’s Place). He’s a Hindu convert now, calls himself Ananga and is much, much happier. What relevance has this to the British political scene? Absolutely none.

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