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Billy Bragg

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.
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Country Disaster Month September War
If we accuse Trump of being a liar, he won’t just say ‘I never said that’ or just ignore it and go on to the next thing.
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Accuse Liars never Saidm Ignore
You can have an argument with someone who’s a sceptic. When I say ‘cynic’, I mean someone who has given up, and they want you to give up too, so it makes them feel better about themselves.
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Feel Makem Sceptic Someone Themselves
I think that ultimately Trump will lose the election and in the process destroy the Republican party – but then I’m an optimist, ha ha ha! So he might not lose. He might be in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world!
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Charge Election Nuclear Party Republican Ultimately
Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
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Achieve Bread Politics
I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
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Country Islands Soldier Song War
If we think we’re a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let’s commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.
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Grea Idea Ourselves Thinking World
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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Confrontation Height Made Political
I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.
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Art Politics Thinking Try Writing
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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Band Political Records
A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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Dancing Politics Sleep
Don’t saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
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Answers Guilt Poetry Saddle
If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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Ibacklist Life Want
If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they’re much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they’re about relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.
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Interesting Song Thinking
At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society.
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Education Free Important Powerful
I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.
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Aspiration Better Just Saying Need Party Politician

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