Every week for the past three years Simon Rae has written a poem for the Weekend Guardian. As unpredictable as the English weather, his Saturday satires have swung from affectionate parody through rhyming ridicule, to jibes and jests, virulent attacks, merciless sarcasm, and much else. Soft Targets is more than just a book of funny poems and savage squibs: it's a portrait of our present age, the good, the bad and the ugly face of Britain today. Here they all are: the bungling politicians, bumbling liars and hypocrites, warmongers and whoremongers, grey men and lay men... Our heroes and villains, those we love, those we hate and those we love to hate: Prime Ministers past and present, David Gower, Prince Charles and Lester Piggott, British Telecom and Saddam Hussein, the BBC, EEC, IRA and SAS, the Chinese leadership and the England cricket team, and many, many more...