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Nelly Giulien - Warm Britannia
Edited by JODY PORTER

Warm Britannia
Nelly Giulien

A hundred thousand useless mouths and backs - A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift

Note on poem: The bodies of 15,500 miscarried and aborted babies were incinerated as general waste by twenty-seven NHS trusts in just the last two years, with Ipswich and Addenbrookes Hospitals using them for green fuel

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