Money Maketh Man A Tory,

At Some Point In Your Life You Have To Engage With The Fact That You Are Part Of A Society. Yeah The Individual Is The Most Important Facet In Society But Unless Every Individual Is The Recipient Of Free Health Care, Free Education Decent Affordable Housing And A Proper Pension Then Only The Rich And Powerful Will Be Individuals And The Rest Of Us Will Be Exploited By Them.

I Came Into This Whole Business By Going To See Rock Against Racism Gigs With The Clash.

Mixing Pop And Politics He Asks Me What The Use Is / I Offer Him Embarrassment And My Usual Excuses.

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. 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!

I Don't Mind Being Labeled As A Political Songwriter. I've Chosen To Do That. What Really Annoys Me Is Being Dismissed As A Political Songwriter. That Really Pains Me, Because Life Isn't All About Love; It's Not All About Politics, Either. It's A Beautiful Mixture Of Events That Absolutely Baffle You, And You Think, "why Can't I Do Something About That?", Whether Those Events Are In Your Bedroom, Or Out There In The Wide World. In Our Daily Lives We Engage With Them At Different Times, And I'm Trying To Write About The Whole Human Experience, Or My Perspective On It Anyway.