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The film, brilliantly designed, envisions a near-future in which Manhattan has become a walled-off prison, the island’s borders lethally policed but its interior surrendered to lunatics and criminals.

Matters turn, ahem, even graver when a guard from a nearby lunatic asylum arrives to announce a madman has escaped.

"I think the Colombian authorities, when it comes to, like, the military and the police, are still very pro-American. The only problem in Colombia is a lunatic president," Rubio told reporters.

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"I'm not a lunatic," Bellamy said after topping Wales' Nations League group last year.

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One senior figure sums up the situation with no pleasure – discussion about changing the Labour leader "is both lunatic, and real".

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