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Bishop Bulgeworthy.

Like, he found a scripture that said, like, you know, if you really want glory, you have to die of this world.

I mean, the world's pretty aw- I mean, you guys know the world, right? Like, the Gloaming, all that kinda shit.

Like, it's terrible out there, man.

So they thought, like, if you can die in this world with the praise of the Lost in your heart, you can live on in a better world.

Like, the...

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So

as Russ said, it was a very, very good half of the group.

Revenue was up 53% year on year to 37.6 million.

Pure organic basis revenue was up by 13%, so organically very, very strong as well.

Group gross margins were up by 1%, so that meant the overall gross profit was up 57% to £14.5 million.

We had some overhead investment in the half.

So in terms of flowing down to the bottom, adjusted profit before tax, Steel Strong was up 10% to 3 million.

just while the guys take a couple of moments to review the questions submitted already i'd just like to remind you of recording this presentation along with a copy of the slides and the published q a will be accessed via your investment company platform um russ nick as you can see you've had a number of questions from investors thank you to everybody for your engagement uh this afternoon if i may guys just hand back to you to take us through the q a and then i'll pick up from you at the end

I mean, the play, in a sense, plays its part in making them visible.

This is one of the things that's so radical and important about the play.

It is really the first, uh, Western comedy with a female lead.

And Aristophanes is really having to figure out what that even means.

Up until this point, particularly the heroes of comedy, but actually all the kind of central characters have been very, very blokey.

The entire, uh, logic of the genre has been about blokes satisfying their desires for self-aggrandizement and for fleshly pleasures at the expense of their fellow citizens.

And the idea that you could do what tragedy had been doing for decades and build a comedy around, uh, not only a female lead, but actually a core cast of interesting female characters-

Do you think it is a girl power play?

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