The 1st stanza asks a question to which the answer is, of course, “No”. John Milton wrote Areopagitica, an argument against censorship.

Sadly, in the Britain of 2025, poets, artists, journalists, religious leaders and The Man on the Clapham Omnibus now face routine harrassment by the UK Government and the police, enduring arrest and imprisonment without charge or trial: and for what? for oppos...

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TOOLS

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A watchful eye

An impartial mind

A careful ear for listening

A lifetime of experiences magic & tragic 

An urge to confess

An urge to explore 

A clear enough view just to spy

              W/ your little eye

                   Something beautiful or

                          Something horrid 

                                Seen even in the most

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The farce ain’t over,

It’s time to make the rich pay,

You got rid of the Blonde Buffoon,

And put The Great Tool in his place.

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Out walking I saw a fifty pence piece

On the pavement

I looked round before bending over

My lucky day but

Trying to prise the thing free

Not knowing it was superglued I

Did my back in.

After lying up a few days I returned with a crowbar

In a carrier bag but

The coin was gone

Now I glue them to the

Path outside my window

Its great fun watching folk trying to

L...

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