Guarding the Guardians

Arresting the creep of velvet fascism in 'democratic' societies is a lost battle. Has the Fourth Estate ceded its power, identified by Edmund Burke. From George Bush to Tony Blair the new fascist states have decreed torture acceptable - or perhaps merely an 'anomaly.' There is no longer a free press or a moral political power. Are poets the last moral legislators? This little book is an attempt at politics in verse - an examination of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Psy-ops, Porton-Down, Magna Carta, Dr David Kelly, Ronnie Maddison, Enron and much more besides. An attempt to guard us from our anarchic and increasingly facist guardians.