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She maybe showing a little restraint from the vindictive motormouth antics that accompanied her emergence but Lily Allen is certainly no less outspoken second album around. Perhaps she's just choosing her targets more carefully. Where once she was savaging Cheryl Tweedy now there are more significant targets like, for example, the BNP. On Saturday, she launched a blitzing, four-letter tirade at the controversial political party from the stage at Somerset House.

During the intro to "F*ck You", the pop icon told the crowd: "I'd like to dedicate this song to the BNP. Those motherf**ker, w**ker, sh**ty, a**ehole, c**tface, homophobic b**tards". Choice words. Meanwhile, her new single, "22", looks to address another of society's ills, the washed-up, drunken ladette. The promo video, which you can see below, finds the singer surrounded by sloshed girls out on the lash, all trussed-up and caked in lipstick, when all they really want is a decent bloke. There's a lot of frogs out there, Lily.