, so I really must take steps to preserve the limericks about the Master of Balliol that were sent in by readers.
Here they are:
There once was a Master of BalliolWhose writers delighted in onlyoil.
Needing nary a push,
To blame all on Bush,
Will Master throw Gilligan down’t’ hole?
Don Eyres
There was a Master of Balliol, called Graham
Who thought things and knew how to say ‘em
When he looked at old Auntie,
He denounced her as slanty
And t’is pity we’re all forced to pay ‘em.
Graham, old Balliol’s Master,
Knew Beeb was set for disaster
When Gilligan said,
Through a hole in his head,
“I’m sad to report I’m a bastar- “
Sharpshooter
There once was a Master of Balliol
Who, taking a break from his daily toil,
claimed democracy
needs Aunt BBC
which in turn needs its unquestioned Charter Royal.
Too cloistered, the Master of Balliol
was blind to the Beeb’s abject failiol
to be aptly fair
‘tween the critics and Blair,
falling in with the anti-war wailiol.
Laban Tall also comments, but not in rhyme.
On Monday, Margaret Hodge was the guest on The Daily Politics. She continually referred to ‘this Conservative Government’ without correction. I rather think she should have been.