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'Just hideous': Fury at 'savage' TV satire that portrays Lady Thatcher
as Hannibal Lecter and Queen Mum as drink-sodden gambler
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'Just hideous': Fury at 'savage' TV satire that portrays Lady Thatcher as
Hannibal Lecter and Queen Mum as drink-sodden gambler

* Psychobitches has been branded 'beyond the acceptable bounds of
satire'
* Sky Arts 1 sketch show depicts the Queen Mother as a foul-mouthed
drunk

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killer Hannibal Lecter and depicts the Queen Mother as a foul-mouthed
drunk has been branded ‘hideous’, ‘savage’ and ‘beyond the acceptable
bounds of satire’.

Historian Andrew Roberts, former Minister John Redwood and Royal

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'But the sheer savagery of this goes beyond the acceptable bounds of
satire.’

Tory MP Mr Redwood said: ‘I think this depiction would have been