Moses launched a thinly disguised attack on the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, by deriding government plans to cut legal aid.
He also launches a thinly disguised attack on the oil companies for putting their own selfish interests ahead of the survival of civilisation.
In a barely disguised attack on Trump and fellow protectionists, it warned leaders to put more effort into mitigating the effects of globalisation.
This turned out to be largely panicky self-censorship, but in Switzerland, a revival of Voltaire's play Mahomet received complaints, an irony indeed since the play was written in 1740 as a disguised attack on Christianity.
Like Coldplay, he's not immune to sniping from other artists: the highly respected songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson has included a thinly disguised attack on Sting called Here Comes Geordie on his new album Dream Attic.
In Paris today, Mr. Chirac delivered a thinly disguised attack on the White House's position that the two nations that fought to oust Saddam Hussein should take the lead in Iraq's revival.
Sir Mervyn King has launched a thinly disguised attack on his successor as Bank of England governor, deriding proposals to ditch the central bank's inflation target in favour of a growth target based as "wishful thinking".
Politicians can take an unholy glee in berating "bad teachers", and you do not have to be paranoid to see such rhetoric as a thinly disguised attack on the whole profession.
The Prime Minister launched a thinly disguised attack on the president of the EEC Commission, Mr Jacques Delors, who earlier this year said that, over the next few years, the European Community would become responsible for some 80percentnt of all legislation in the Twelve, during which time an "embryo" European government might emerge.
But in Moscow there are suspicions that this is a disguised attack against Russia.
