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Monday, May 31, 2004

Ailing M&S hires Stuart Rose to fend off hostile Green bid 
M&S boss Mr Rose
Declared, "I'll see this business grows."
But read in between
He meant, "Mr Green,
Back off! I'm the king of the clothes!"

Sunday, May 30, 2004

Saudi commandos free hostages in Khobar raid 
Hostages held in the kingdom
Were happy for soldiers to spring dem;
The same can't be said
Of the 22 dead...
Then again, what good news could you bring dem?

Saturday, May 29, 2004

Al Qaeda-linked group kill Western hostages in Saudi Arabia 
Al Qaeda is killing in Khobar,
Intent on a Saudi coup d'état,
But terrorist lurkers
Won't scare foreign workers
Enticed by a slice of the moolah.

Friday, May 28, 2004

Blunkett announces high-tech measures for sex-crime prevention  
Blunkett says rampant child sex
Will stop if we tag paedos' legs;
It seems Orwell's fears
Were out 20 years...
Beware - non-pay parkers are next!

Thursday, May 27, 2004

Radical cleric arrested for extradition to US 
They're finally throwing the book
At Hamza - but how come it took
US extradition
When public petition
Has long said, "Abu, sling yer hook"?

Three-year old child dies of obesity 
Blair's declared obesity
Is killing our kids young as three,
But a single freak case
Doesn't mean the whole race
Should give up fried food for herb tea.

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Warehouse fire devastates Saatchi art collection 
Today was an infernal date
For Damien Hirst and his mates,
And for once the Mail's right
When its columns indict:
"Art's in a terrible state."

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Hospital reveals that two-year-old boy was produced from 21-year-old sperm 
Some come from 1981
Reached the egg post-2001,
But will the poor child
By his peers be reviled
For worshipping Wham like his mum?

Monday, May 24, 2004

MoD refuses public inquiry into Deepcut deaths 
The Gov says there'll be no inquiry
About four cadets' odd expiry;
'Cos the deepest of cuts
That they fear in their guts
Is in votes (with polls close in the diary).

Sunday, May 23, 2004

At least five dead after collapse of new Paris airport lounge roof  
Were Charles de Gaulle's builders too rushed
To put in the proper roof struts?
And might this collapse mean
That Paris's Games dream
Lies - like its travellers - crushed?

Saturday, May 22, 2004

Manchester United trounce Milwall in FA cup final 
3-0 might mean Man U rule
But what say the boys from Milwall?
"We ain't too bothered...
The Mancs'll get clobbered
By us in the after-match brawl."

Friday, May 21, 2004

BBC poaches new director-general from C4 
Channel 4 main man Mark Thompson
Said he'd not leave "'til the job's done",
But he couldn't forsake
Grade's offer to take
The one job in telly with knobs on.

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Railway workers vote for strike action over pay and perks 
The red RMT head Bob Crow
Demands we pay railmen more dough;
Were his members polite,
Then we might back their strike,
But they're not, so the lot can F- O- !

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Protesters flour-bomb the Commons 
Most Parliamentary attacks
Don't come in powdery packs,
And though those in power
Brush off purple flour,
Next time it might be anthrax.

Barbara Cassani hands Olympic torch to Sebastian Coe 
Said big-business wiz Ms Cassani,
"Seb'll head London's bid army;"
"Then when we lose,"
"He'll need running shoes,"
"And none of the come-back can harm me!"

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Israel razes Rafah refugee camp in bid to curtail Arab gun-running 
Two ancient faiths from Hebron
Each thinks the other's all wrong,
But sacred-earth sites
Are both their birthrights...
If only they'd just get along.

Monday, May 17, 2004

Iraqi leader killed in blast/Soldiers attacked by nerve agent 
The interim head of Iraq
Died in a bomb-blast attack,
Then sarin was found
In enemy rounds...
But Blair'll swear peace is "on track"!

Sunday, May 16, 2004

Magazine claims Rumsfeld authorised secret abuse programme 
A gung-ho Defence Sec, Don Rumsfeld,
Didn't care how hired guns dealt
With Arabs in chains,
And the New Yorker claims
He ordered they all got their bums felt.

Saturday, May 15, 2004

Succession speculation mounts as poll brands Blair "untrustworthy"  
Tony's behind in the polls
And plenty of cabinet moles
Are whispering Gordon
Is best-placed to broaden
The party's appeal to the proles.

Friday, May 14, 2004

Mirror gives Morgan the boot after army rebuttal of fake pics 
Today British soldiers hit back
At Morgan's "unfounded" attack;
And though there's real sleaze,
Seems Blair's enemies
All quit or get given the sack.

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Mirror editor faces calls for his resignation 
The Mirror's main man Mr Morgan
Splashed abuse snaps in his organ;
Seems they were fake...
Now that's some mistake!
And Piers, it appears, could be walkin'.

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Kilroy-Silk launches Euro election bid 
Kilroy is standing to be
A UKIP MEP
But will he, if sent
To the E Parliament,
Squat by his seat on one knee?

Police make record heroin seizure in East London 
33 kilos of horse
Were seized by a happy police force;
Do they want a medal?
No – simply to peddle,
To bolster their bonus, of course.

Odists celebrate Limerick Day 
Today is the day Mr. Lear
Found fit from the womb to appear,
So some folks now say
It's Limerick Day,
After the man's daft career.

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Al Qaeda vengeance video shows beheading of US contractor Nick Berg 
In Iraq, a contractor named Nick
Thought he could make a buck quick,
But he didn't wager
On boys from Al Qaeda
Parading his head on a stick.

Monday, May 10, 2004

Maxine Carr pleads guilty to fraud and deception 
Maxine admits she's a conspirer
In benefit fraud - nothing direr;
She won't, though, confess
She covered up deaths
Of Holly and Jess just like Myra.

Saturday, May 08, 2004

Basra cleric vows to avenge abused prisoners 
Sheikh Abdul-Sattar al-Bahadli
Says his supporters should gladly
Send our troops to their graves
Or make females their slaves...
Seems he's no worse than us, sadly.

Friday, May 07, 2004

Rumsfeld apologises for abuse of prisoners and accepts "full responsibility" 
Rummy says he'll take the rap
For troops treating captives like crap,
But no contrite squeal
Could possibly heal
The huge credibility gap.

Thursday, May 06, 2004

Naomi Campbell wins privacy case against Daily Mirror 
A sly supermodel, Naomi,
Exclaimed, "Mr Morgan, you owe me;"
"The judge said no hack"
"Can say I love crack"
(...Just after he'd said to her, "Blow me!")


Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Leslie Grantham in Internet sex scandal 
Appropriately, Dirty Den
Prefers to disperse his semen
While pumping his old man
In costume on webcam...
Let's just hope he's not killed again.

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Army chief casts doubt on authenticity of 'torture' photos 
A colonel, with some irritation,
Claims fake pics are fouling our nation:
"Those aren't the right khakis,"
"For kicking Iraqis!"
(Great damage - poor limitation.)

25 years since Thatcher came to power 
Today marked the quarter-centenary
Of Maggie's rise to quasi-queenerie;
"Though we're not amused,"
She muttered, confused,
"To find we're now just background scenery."

Monday, May 03, 2004

Transport minister Kim Howells promises rail revolution 
Howells claims he'll cure what ails
A system that signally fails...
But fixing some trains
Won't halt Labour's pains,
When Tony's the one off the rails.

Sunday, May 02, 2004

Pics show British troops attacking and urinating on Iraqi prisoners 
Torture Iraqis? Tish, tish!
Of course we don't do that - we're Brits;
The military way
Is to call it "horseplay"
When we beat 'em and shower 'em in piss.

Saturday, May 01, 2004

Beckham to leave Real Madrid for Chelsea? 
Beckham's been beckoned to Chelski
(Say rumours he's not tried to quellski;)
I guess that Victoria
Said, "You know the score, Dear,"
"I don't want no more kiss-n-tellski!"

Michael Jackson child-abuse trial begins 
Is Jacko a teen-semen-spiller?
Asks one off-the-wall courtroom thriller;
"Sure the kid beat it,"
"But I didn't eat it -"
"I used it as face Polyfilla."

Former Eastern bloc countries join European Union 
We welcome our new EU brothers
Like ladies of leisure do lovers;
Now the old reds
Aren't under our beds –
They're firmly tucked under the covers.

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