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So the film footage which features lots of moody shots of desolate French housing estates includes a clip of Gordon Browns excruciating moment on the 2010 campaign trail when he dismissed a Labour pensioner as bigoted for airing her concerns over immigration. Meanwhile Bush is presented as an arty, right-on liberal, yet is a closet chauvinist and has yet to pay any money to his sound technician.

Its all very self consciously un-theatrical: the first third consists simply of Hoss narrating extracts although thanks to the hypnotic clarity of Eribons prose and the cool susurrations of Hosss voice, that brings its own pleasures.

It is at its best when it disrupts itself. Hosss real life late father was a true working class hero who created a trade union for guest workers (immigrants) in Germany and, disenchanted by party politics, went to Brazil to establish environmental farming policies for an Amazon village. His story forms the final third of the show.

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