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There were costume changes and choreographed dance numbers, even an intro where a moving tentacle flailed halfway out of her mouth.

But unhappiness about the coming welfare cuts spreads its tentacles far further.

We cannot say the same with a straight face, without or without tentacle mouths.

She added that colonialism "was no longer a matter of my own maligned fate but a system of evil whose tentacles reached into every phase of African life".

In the Kremlin, though they deny any role in these events, I am sure people are happy Russia is seen as so powerful; its tentacles so far-reaching they can even stir up Romanian politics.