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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

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you’re an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
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Artist Important Journalist Thinking
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
If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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Ibacklist Life Want
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
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 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
We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
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Country Dream Nightmare Ugly Worry
What happened on September 11 wasn’t the first act of war, it was the most unspeakable act of murder and terrorism. But it was construed by a very small group of people – there is no army out there in the dark waiting to take over America.
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Army Dark Unspeakable War
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Generations Jobs Worst
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we’d all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away
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Cutting Middleman Reality Somemroom Struggle
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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Bee Problem Smashing Solved Think Unspeakables
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
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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Argument Consumers Corporations
You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn’t mean that you are not held accountable.
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Community Mean Responsibility
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
Part of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago.
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Ago Dismissed Long Part Political Problem Songwriter

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