1022 - Demonstrating in the street

The summer's here and (yeah) the time is right
For demonstrating in the streets (again)
John Simpson always likes to catch a fight
That's why he's currently down in Tehran
Ah, those fond memories of Tiananmen
And seeing Saddam's statue toppling o'er
He loves his foreign travel, specially when
There's oppressed people dying on the floor
Who cares where it may be, or what it's for?
It's thrilling viewing each and every night
Forget the boring politics, rerun
That cellphone video you showed before
The one where that poor girl was hit and died
And for a while we'll care about Iran
Mon 22 June 2009

715 - Naughty boys

The Russian bear’s been growling once again
It still sees Georgia and the republics
That broke away as in its back garden
Putin, Medvedev et al use old tricks
Like Khrushchev and Hungary ’56
Like Brezhnev and Czechoslovakia
Remember Lech Walesa and his ships
Ceaucescu and wife in Romania

Remember him this way, Gary Glitter
Hello hello he’s coming back again
You don’t wanna touch him there (oh, those pics
They found when they mended his computer!)
The leader of the chain gang banged up when
He banged some underage Vietnamese chicks

Tue 19 Aug 2008

703 - Bad weather warning

George Bush, you are a comedy genius
Thanks for that human rights speech in Thailand
But now you’re in China, there’ll be more fuss
About the pollution that’s out of hand
Handkerchief over mouth when in the stand
Watching the games, while in the marathon
Poor Paula Radcliffe’s run won’t go as planned
Because before that long long race is run
She’ll be choking, worse even than Athens
I’ll miss much of the games, but it’s no loss
Because I’ll be on holiday, the sand
And country scenery scene of my fun
And games, down in Dorset. All set; now just
Need to wave my old magic weather wand
Thur 7 Aug 2008

701 - Beijing calling

Beijing Olympics, the world is watching
And nothing could be finer than being
In China in the morning smog, choking
Not too much joking going on, hoping
We’ll get the odd gold or two in Beijing
The smoking gun, the foggy smoggy ring
Of starting pistol, net monitoring
And not just in the hammer and sickling
But free speech and human rights restricting
That said, maybe it’s a bit nitpicking
To pick on Peking, peeking and seeking
To preach, when democracy’s weakening
In the west, which stayed best by bullying
The rest; now the great test is approaching
Tue 5 Aug 2008

610 - The warmth of the sun

A lovely warm spring day, no coat needed.
The weather can be friendly, usually is
But through Burma a cyclone has seeded
Destruction, loss of life and hopelessness.
The Burmese authorities are far less
Accepting of our help than they should be,
But this time they have been forced to request
Our charity, humiliatingly.
Some good may come of such a tragedy;
In wartime, most of the public heeded
The call for unity; foreign allies
Joining the struggle against the Nazi.
As once our threatened people united,
Could weather’s violence bring us back to peace?
Tue 6 May 2008