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Martin Rowson, the man behind the renaissance of cartooning at the Morning Star, whose work the Daily Mail once denounced in a full-page editorial as, “disgusting, deranged... sick and offensive,” has written challenging lyrics in response to the political and social climate surrounding the pandemic.
“Basically,” Rowson says, “I’m barking for a thing I’ve done as a kind of daily versical mental throat clearing during Lockdown, which has been to write a daily Plague Song, which I’ve been doing more or less every day since May 11 2020.
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