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ood day, dear Times reader, and welcome to the week when the catastrophic power struggle between the “elected” war criminal Vladimir Putin and the more “freelance” war criminals of the Wagner group spilt over, unexpectedly, into British Light Entertainment and figures therein.

And not even present British Light Entertainment figures, such as “a sexy woman” from Love Island or Bradley Walsh from The Chase. No — this unexpected “Light Entertainment/Russian mercenaries intent on obliterating Ukraine” crossover concerns a figure who, due to the vagaries of time, registers as so admirably niche that until this week connoisseurs of British pop-culture ephemera would have given an admiring, “Oh! That’s a good one. Rare cut. Respect,” if you brought him up in conversation. Shall we shilly-shally no

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