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Give Charlie a break

The boy’s gone to jail. Isn’t that enough?

issue 23 July 2011

The boy’s gone to jail. Isn’t that enough?

I was watching the news on the evening of 10 December, some follow-up reports about the student protest the day before, and saw a clip of a young man wielding a mannequin’s leg — shod in a lady’s wedge-heeled boot — as he declared that he and the other protestors were ‘very angry’.

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