Hercule or Hercules ?
I’m never a fan of the gutter press,
But sometimes even the filth have a scoop that we need to have told –
Corrupt politicians must always be hounded until they confess,
(Though spare us the muckracking piety wallowing under the fold).
Holding our powers to answer is really not where the threats lurk,
But wholly with kings –
And an anarchist press is better by far than an old-boy network
Pulling the strings.
So let no little grey cells be a tool of the latter,
In a toxic smoke-filled room.
If the Augean Stables need sweeping, then what does it matter,
Whose hand is pushing the broom ?
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