Geoffrey Hill could no longer draw a firm distinction between "Blairite Labour" and the Thatcher-era Conservatives, lamenting that both parties had become solely oriented toward "materialism". Hill's style has been subjected to parody: Wendy Cope includes a two-stanza parody of the "Mercian Hymns" entitled "Duffa Rex" in "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis". Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and
Kenneth Cope a female nurse as part of his father's attempt to rob a maternity hospital. Once there Cyril finds love with a real nurse. In 1975–76 he wrote three series of the BBC children's television series "Striker", starring the young Kevin Moreton and inspired by the local youth football team in the village of Islip, Oxfordshire, where the Cope family was then living. Cope later appeared in the "Doctor Who" story "Warriors' Gate" (in 1981), and guest starred in four episodes of "Casualty", as well as taking roles in "The Bill", "Waking the Dead", "A Touch of Frost", "Minder" and "Kavanagh