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Reporters
It’s quite the fashion now to bash
Those journalists who seek the truth;
As years flow by, more are cut down,
Or languish, silenced, in their youth.
As humans they are fallible
And are rebuked for their mistakes,
But hard men seek to shut them up
When they play for the highest stakes,
And can’t afford to be faced with
Exposure through detailed research,
To ...
Sunday 24th November 2024 9:38 am
Time of Swine
With their grunting and their oinking,
They parade around the pen.
For all their affectations,
They’re the angriest of men.
Their litany of grievances
Spawns shrill dishonest whine;
We’re living in the conman’s age,
This is the time of swine.
They soil your information
To camouflage their faults;
All traces of wrongdoing
Are locked deep down in vaults.
They...
Wednesday 6th November 2024 9:55 pm
Strongmen
Let’s hear it for these little men,
Let’s hear it for the pompous twits;
Let’s hear it for their backward views,
Their entourage of nasty shits.
Let’s join them turning back the clock
And pumping rubbish in the air;
Let's make sure their election day
Is anything but free and fair.
Give them the room to swagger on,
As they bash human rights and gays,
And stru...
Saturday 8th June 2024 9:42 am
Ballot Box
With our hearty supermarket habits
And ways of democratic self-deceit,
We dodge the bullets to the ballot box,
Accepting our predictable defeat.
Brought up on true sportsmanship’s traditions,
We learn to take reverses on the chin.
We fight our corner and we know our rights;
We also know that we can never win.
In the eyes of those who hold the reins now,
There i...
Friday 3rd May 2024 8:52 am
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