It Says Here - Billy Bragg

It says, here

That the unions will never learn

It says, here

That the economy is on the upturn

And it says, here

We should be proud

That we are free

And our free press reflects our democracy

Those braying voices on the right of the House

Are echoed down the Street of Shame

Where politics mix with bingo and tits

In a money and numbers game

Where they offer you a feature

On stockings and suspenders

Next to a call for stiffer penalties for

Sex offenders

It says, here

That this year’s prince is born

It says, here

Do you ever wish that you were better informed?

And it says, here

That we can only stop the rot

With a large dose of law and order

And a touch of the short sharp shock

If this does not reflect your view you should understand

That those who own the papers also own this land

And they’d rather you believe

In Coronation Street capers

In the war of circulation, it sells newspapers

Could it be an infringement

Of the freedom of the press

To print pictures of women in

States of undress?

When you wake up to the fact

That your paper is Tory

Just remember:

There are two sides to every story