May 10, 2018
In East Yorkshire, near the Westwood
A seat was up for grabs; views of a race course
Horse chestnuts, oak trees, the Minster.
Cows sit on a busy road leading in to Beverley
And buttercups race with the clover.
The seat stretches like a chaise longue,
Put your legs up let’s a...
February 11, 2018
Apparently KoKo’s (the recently appointed Lord High Executioner in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado) ‘I’ve Got a Little List’ of ‘society offenders who never will be missed’ is the most parodied of Gilbert’s lyrics. In 1992 Peter Lilley MP, the then social security se...
January 16, 2018
The Way Things Have Always Been (JULY 2017)
Tradition, ritual, and custom.
The way things have always been.
As pertinent to Christmas gifts before OR after the turkey feast as to antiquated practices in law and at Westminster.
From the swearing allegiance to God and the Qu...
November 3, 2017
“Let them eat gruel”, are the words of a fool, - or a person who just doesn’t care,
But many a monster has dressed as a clown, - so, the public had better beware.
In the interest of fairness, I peeked at your twitter.
Your words and demeanour seem twisted and bitter.
W...
March 3, 2017
My illness' and disabilities are hidden. Most of the time when you see me you might look at me and think 'he is not ill' or 'he is cheating the system' or 'he is a lazy bastard'.
You know what, on my good days - the only days you are likely to see me - I perhaps would...
January 1, 2017
The folks with no titles in front of their names
all over the world
are raring up and talking back
to the folks called Mister.
You say you thought everybody was called Mister?
No, son, not everybody.
In Dixie, often they won’t call Negroes Mister.
In China before what happene...
December 10, 2016
I was concerned that I haven't been bashing the bankers enough recently, so ...
There Was A Merchant Banker
I found myself recoiling at a banker's unctuous tone
That wafted through the airwaves from my radio today,
Bemoaning the injustice of a bad press for his ilk,
D...
December 9, 2016
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We believe that The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has no...
November 15, 2016
Heavy with accumulated age, he
Struggled from the chair, with help, into a
Stoop, and, bowing head first and unsteady,
Walked a little way with his adviser.
Another chair to fall into, and there
Explain in ragged prose what steps he’d made
To look for full-time work th...
November 7, 2016
The rebels flag was the deepest blue,
It waved above their infant coup,
Aligned themselves with the rich mans frown,
Their minds fixed to bring the movement down.
They raised the legal standards high,
Lord Beatson ruled, our martyrs die,
Though Watson flinch and McNicol...