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  • Anti-Fascism
    • Fighting the fash
  • Hating Tories
    • And if you think that's not fair play, remember this you must ... The Tories, they will spend their day mostly hating us.
  • Housing
    • Poems and articles about housing and homelessness.
  • Justice?
    • Miscarriages of, and comments about.
  • Labour Party
    • A bourgeois workers' party, Lenin called it.
  • Refugees and Migrants
    • Defending refugees and migrants against a nasty, deadly right-wing assault. No borders!
  • Religion
    • Secular socialist views ...
  • Support this struggle!
    • Campaigns, strikes and struggles deserving of your support
  • The media
    • Newspapers! Telly! All that stuff! Corporate ones that drive you up the wall; maybe some better ones that make you think ...
  • UK General Elections
    • From the disastrous 2015 election, through the 2017 and 2019 elections, with more to come!
  • Up the Republic!
    • Scrap the Monarchy - it's an outdated, undemocratic bastion of privilege. Obviously.
  • War and Terror
    • No to terror. No to war. Unity is strength. Solidarity forever.
  • Work
    • Working nine-to-five, round-the-clock shifts, only when the boss wants you or not working at all ...

While Bishops Washed Their Frocks

Shortly before Christmas 2012, the Church of Engalnd voted not to allow women to become bishops. The decision to allow women bishops – with some qualification – was taken around two years later. To the tune of While Shepherd’s Watched … Read More

Michael Gove Is Coming to Town

More of a Christmas carol than a poem, dedicated to our later, unlamented Education Secretary, and set to the tune of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town: You’d better not hope, dream or aspire Stay in your place, you won’t … Read More

Mrs Wales Is Having A Baby

There once was a princess called Kate Who noticed her period was late Each time she vomited The media commented And worshipped the future head of state 

We Three Kings

A variation on a festive favourite – to the tune of We Three Kings Of Orient Are: We three kings of austerity be IDS, Gideon and David C Finding ways To make you pay For capitalism’s misanthropy Oh-oh Cuts by daytime, cuts … Read More

An Ode to Tube Cleaning

A right filthy job is Tube cleaning We slave while the bosses are preening We work night and day No pension or sick pay And the wages are truly demeaning But cleaners won’t let them attack us Harass us, track … Read More

Justice For The 33

Throughout 2013, RMT members fought a struggle for the reinstatement of 33 agency workers who lost their jobs when their agency was (rightly) kicked off the Underground. I wrote this poem in support of that campaign. Eventually some, but not … Read More

Bad Mayor Boris

To the tune of Good King Wenceslas: Boris Johnson once looked out Across the River Tha-ames In one direction poverty The other gold and ge-ems People slept on streets that night Though the frost was cru-el And pensioners in freezing … Read More

Gideon’s Budget 2012

Two limericks for Gideon George Osborne’s 2012 Budget: 1. We can be sure that in Gideon’s budget However the media judge it There’ll be gifts for the rich For the rest, not a stitch And Labour’s poor leaders will fudge … Read More

Respect for the Dead?

Written on the occasion of the death of Margaret Thatcher in 2012. Today I mourn the passing of those who deserve our tears The many many victims of Margaret Thatcher’s years The teenage generation, hopes destroyed without a care Like … Read More