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We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.

Billy Bragg

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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Pairs Pins Punk Safety
Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.
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Accountability Freedom Paradox Seem
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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Better Feel Giving Mean Scepticism Up
All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
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Integrity Media Real
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
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
If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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Ibacklist Life Want
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
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Cares Country Patriot
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
You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
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Activist Sleep Sleeper Waiting
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
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Generations Jobs Worst
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
Money maketh man a tory, don’t fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
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Assumption Fire Men Money Tea Toast
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
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

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