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Maggie, Steve and the Poll Tax Riot
Paul Hawkins
Do you remember the time in Trafalgar Square? A scaffold pole flung through the police car windscreen, the helmetless copper punching a pensioner and Steve screaming fuuucking caaant at the copper, who was about eighteen years old, bug-eyed in blue. Steve and me and
bloody everyone jamming crowd barriers under the wheels of that riot van that drove into us; the chanting, the van trying to reverse out, the chanting and shouting and the van getting stuck; the chanting and shouting and smashing as we rocked the van over. Then the tsunami
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