This track appeared on John Cooper Clarke's debut album released in 1978 "Oł est la maison de fromage". The sentiment that the Daily Express pollutes minds more than the "red tops" is as true today as it was 30 years ago and could equally be aimed at The Daily Mail. I first saw John perform this at The Nashville Rooms on North End Road in 1977, he is a much underated talent.

I've seen the poison letters of the horrible hacks
About the yellow peril and the reds and the blacks
And the TUC and its treacherous acts
Kremlin money - All right Jack
I've seen how democracy is under duress
But I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express

I've seen the suede jack boot the verbal cosh
Whitehouse Whitelaw whitewash
Blood uptown where the vandals rule
Classroom mafia scandal school
They accuse - I confess
I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express

Angry columns scream in pain
Love in vain domestic strain
Divorce disease it eats away
The family structure day by day
In the grim pursuit of happiness
I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express

This paper's boring mindless mean
Full of pornography the kind that's clean
Where William Hickey meets Michael Caine
Again and again and again and again
I've seen millionaires on the DHSS
But I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express

John Cooper Clarke. True genius. Better than Wordsworth and his bloody Daftydills!!

excellent!

the Express is almost worse than the Mail, tho it has a far smaller readership.

david wrote:
the Express is almost worse than the Mail.

... good TV guide, though !