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Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

Billy Bragg

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
BILLY BRAGG

Pairs Pins Punk Safety
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
BILLY BRAGG

Mixing Use Usual
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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Bedroom Honesty Personality Traits Writing
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
Britain is a great country. We can more or less say what we like, and we can walk down the street without anyone trying to kill us. I know it’s tough for some people, but generally we live in a caring society. We live in a great country, but we’re no longer a great power.
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Caring Country Long
I’d like to think that in a generation or two we’ll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
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People Thinking Voting
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
It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street – which Im also in favour of.
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Dirty Favour More Powerful Shining
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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Racism Racist Rocks
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
Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn’t be, because you have been the victims of this awful terrorist attack, and I think America deserves the sympathy of the world.
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Images International States Thinking Today World
That’s what I’m about — getting engaged. Too many people don’t wade in the mud with the politicians.
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Mud People Politician Wade
Baptists burn more slowly.
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Baptists Burn More Slowly
If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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Ibacklist Life Want
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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Ideology Party Post Sense Thinking Whether World

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