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BILLY BRAGGI’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
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Whether we like it or not, we live in a post-ideological world. That’s how a Donald Trump can get through. He has no ideology at all: in that sense, he’s a bit like Mussolini.
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I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren’t very political, at all.
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I’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me.
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I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn’t seem to come with them.
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If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
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That’s what I’m about — getting engaged. Too many people don’t wade in the mud with the politicians.
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Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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It’s like being stung by a bee and going out and smashing up a beehive, and thinking you’ve solved the problem. There are more beehives out there; more bees will come. But they’re bees. They’re not grizzly bears.
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Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I’m not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing.
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We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
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