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POETRY: Just Pick Your Favourite Colour

It’s one week until polling day in the UK… Here’s a fairly cynical look at voting, in case you needed it! Just Pick Your Favourite Colour Polling approaches. A week to the day.Will you vote blonde, or will you vote grey?Perhaps you’ll vote orange with plastic earrings,Or pull your pint purple, if Brexit’s your thing.For […]

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POETRY: Don’t Hate.

Unfortunately there was a nasty, antisemitic incident on the London Underground in the last couple of days. A man started abusing a young family with three children. A couple of other passengers intervened and tried to bring the incident to a close – they weren’t treated too nicely by the perpetrator either… He was later […]

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POETRY: Prince Andrew Steals The News

Well, it’s probably not a huge surprise that Prince Andrew has been forced into standing down from Royal Duties in the aftermath of his disaster interview last weekend. Such huge news is it that every mainstream British newspaper dedicated their frontpage to the story. There’s an election on? You wouldn’t know! And for that we […]

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POETRY: The Church of Thunberg

Archivists at the University of Washington have unearthed a 120-year-old photo of a girl who looks uncannily like Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist. The photo has inspired conspiracy theorists who claim the 1898 photo – taken in a Canadian gold-mine – shows that Greta Thunberg is a timetraveller, sent to deliver us an important […]

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POETRY: Prince Andrew Gives An Interview

Prince Andrew is a walking, talking PR Disaster for the Royal Family right now. Of course, he’s been in this position before – but this most recent hour-long interview in a bid to clear his name of the negative association with Jeffrey Epstein has – experts all agree – done nothing for the Prince’s cause. […]

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POETRY: Labour Writes A Manifesto

With the 2019 UK General Election campaigns starting to build steam, the Labour team have all disappeared into the boardroom to finalise the content of their manifesto. The party has been pretty tight-lipped on what might be in their 2019 promise-to-the-nation, but Jeremy Corbyn has allowed one little sneak peak. If Labour wins the election […]

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POETRY: A Speaker’s Final Day

On 31 October 2019, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow stood down from his decade in the Speaker’s Chair. John Bercow has been a controversial Speaker who has divided opinion. He has modernised some elements of the House of Commons proceedings – including choosing not to wear the Speaker’s wig. But it is […]

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POETRY: Nigel Farage Calls His Mother

I wrote this poem when President Trump called in to Nigel Farage’s talk show on LBC Radio to give his two pennies’ on the General Election and the future of Brexit. The President told Farage that he likes Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn would be bad for the UK, and if Farage and Boris worked together […]