Roberts, too, is haunted and pained, whereas Portman and Owen drink and spit their lines with undiminished relish, often at speeds that Nichols can barely handle.

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With Owen Wilson as a doomed bringer of punch lines and Bruce Dern as the mad gatekeeper.

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Ynys Mon MP Albert Owen said there were "so many fault-lines in this policy pledge it is difficult to know where to begin".

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For its part, old Labour will be mindful that the word "socialist" first appeared in November 1827 in the Co-operative magazine - a vehicle for the ideas of Robert Owen, who sought to run his textile mill in Lanark on co-operative lines.

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