He certainly wrote some very funny, very moving and rousing songs. Some of them are a bit macho though.

Piers

MY DADDY IS A LEFT-WING INTELLECTUAL
(Alex Glasgow)

O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual
You can see it from the funny clothes he wears
In his greasy leather jacket or his suit of corduroy
Or that woollen shirt that's full of stains and tears

O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual
He used to be a Stalinist they say
For a while he was a Trotskyist until he saw what he had risked
Now he's just a pragmatist-o-fake

O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual
But he really thought the Beatles were a gas
Mind, he didn't like their music or their haircuts and the rest
He liked them 'cause they were from the working class

O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual
Supports the co-op movement do-or-die
We must nationalise he cries, down with private enterprise
But his divvy comes from shares in ICI

O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual
Believes in full equality for men
But you should have heard the fuss when I failed the 11-plus
He packed me off to Eton there and then

And that Eton education proved effectual
And my Daddy is so very proud of me
I've at last achieved some fame, I've become a houshold name
As a right-wing homosexual on TV