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It is necessary for the socialist poet to have
more impressive technical equipment than his
apolitical contemporaries because his task is that much more important. Alan Bold
Recusant
oppositional poetry, prose, polemic
the
ODIOUS 'IDS' TO MADE 'SIR'
The most universally despised politician of our lifetime, who oversaw a regime responsible for the premature deaths and suicides of tens of thousands of sick and disabled claimants during his six year reign at the DWP, universally vilified, who implemented policies condemned by the United Nations for abuses of disability rights on an industrial scale, has been knighted in the New Year's Honours List! Iain Duncan Smith should not be honoured, he should be behind bars for crimes against the poor, vulnerable and disabled. Instead, he is honoured with the prefix 'Sir'! This is Tory UK at its
most morally bankrupt. Click here to sign the petition demanding that the odious 'IDS' does not receive a knighthood!
AXIS OF SHAME
MAY ARGUES THAT WE MUST RESPECT THE RESULT OF A REFERENDUM HELD OVER TWO YEARS AGO BASED ON LIES...
THERE WAS A RED HOPE FOR A MORE COMPASSIONATE AND OPEN NATION BUT THE BRITISH PEOPLE HAVE OPTED FOR THE BLUE OF DESPAIR,
OF PREJUDICE AND DIVISION...
HOW FITTING THE MOST CATASTROPHIC ELECTION RESULT SINCE 1979 SHOULD BE CONSOLIDATED ON FRIDAY 13TH - UNLUCKY FOR THE MANY...
THIS RACIST,
ISLAMOPHOBIC, HOMOPHOBIC, NARCISSISTIC
CHANCER
IS NOT
OUR
PRIME
MINISTER!
GRENFELL IS THE FIRE THAT WILL NOT GO OUT UNTIL THE TRUTH IS UNCOVERED AND JUSTICE DONE FOR THE 72 VICTIMS OF THIS NEEDLESS CATASTROPHE, ITS TRAUMATISED SURVIVORS, AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY
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...AND YET SHE IS BRINGING HER SHAMBOLIC 'DEAL' BACK TO PARLIAMENT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS REJECTED BY THE LARGEST DEFEAT IN BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY...
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it is wrong ... to imagine that the currently fashionable and approved constitutes the work of permanent importance Alan Bold (1970)
Modern English polite society...
seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it. A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting, pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob
George Bernard Shaw
An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake. Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale.
John Davidson (1857 – 1909)
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