Bring Your Own

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Bring your own booze Bring your own excitement Bring your own rules Bring your own entitlement Bring your own germs Bring your own immunity Bring your own free pass to party with impunity Bring your own scorn Bring your own … Read more

Clerihew: Owen Paterson

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Owen Patterson takes envelopes with splatters on One hundred grand and he’ll do your bidding Fit for public office? You’ve got to be kidding.

Effluenza

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Our public sewage industry was sold to private bidders Who don’t dispose of putrid waste but dump it in the rivers They take responsibility and flush it down the loo For building up the affluent builds effluence up too The … Read more

Hancock’s Last Hour

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A classic of Great British humour Slapstick, slap-and-tickle, caught on candid camera And everyone likes to see the bad guy get his comeuppance, don’t they? But there is something of the gangster genre about it too where Al Capone is … Read more

I’ve Got Your Number

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My profit margin’s wracked with doubt My tax demands encumber I think I know a good way out – Now, where is Johnson’s number? I manufacture hoovers, mate, but with a bit of luck I’m sure I’ll make them ventilate … Read more

Capitalism and Greed

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The loose-tongued Prime Minister claimed that capitalism and greed made the vaccine succeed.   Really?   I don’t remember selecting my injection from the many assembled on a free-market stall. Not at all.   And I don’t recall thinking ‘that … Read more

Credit Where It’s Due

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Some people know what it is worth. Some people can now buy fresh fruit. Or keep the heating on for another hour. Some people can get a decent present for the kiddo’s birthday. Or a coat when winter comes in. … Read more

A Christmas ode

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Opening presents, singing songs, Telling Christmas stories, Spreading seasonal goodwill And, mostly, hating Tories

Clerihew: Michael Gove

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Michael Gove Spun and stitched and wove A tapestry of policy Of bloody awful quality       . . . . Photo: Chris McAndrew / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)