An easy target this one! ‘THE BANK’S A MARVEL’. Paying bonuses seem particularly insensitive when public sector workers and almost everyone else in the UK is charged with cutting their cloth.
– You can see me performing THE BANK’S A MARVEL as the first poem on a clip at Ejector Seat Festival, 4 June, 2011.
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‘THE BALLAD OF THE BARD’. The final two lines hint at the British government’s ambivalent reaction to the Arab Spring.
– You can see me performing THE BALLAD OF THE BARD as the first poem on a clip at TransEuropa Festival, 7 May, 2011.
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I originally wrote ‘TEE VEE’ as a critique of British television. I updated it for a European audience in 2011.
– You can see me performing TEE VEE as the fourth and final poem on a clip at Ejector Seat Festival, 4 June, 2011.
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‘A FREE TUITION LESSON’. Quite a few people voted Liberal Democrat in May 2010 because they were the only party that opposed tuition fees for British students at English Universities. Vince Cable was the Business Secretary responsible for their introduction.
– You can see me performing A FREE TUITION LESSON as the second poem on a clip at Ejector Seat Festival, 4 June, 2011.
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‘THE GRAVE AMERICAN SONG’. June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed in a gun attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States.
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‘DAVE AT NUMBER 10 aka CUTS AND FREEZES – TORY WHEEZES’. The government has embarked on a selective human equivalent of the agricultural policy of slash and burn. Its leader, David Cameron, is one of nineteen British Prime Ministers who was educated at Eton College.
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I used to be surprised how well ‘THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT’ was received by upper middle-class audiences. Then I realised: they had been educated at lesser-known public schools.
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‘BLAIR’S PRAYER’. In January 2011, the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War summoned Tony Blair back yet again.
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