
DING DONG! WHEN PROTEST SONGS WEREN’T DEAD
by Kenan Malik
So, those who despise Margaret Thatcher for her vindictiveness and spitefulness want to celebrate her death by propelling into the charts a song about the death of a witch. Those who laud Thatcher for her supposed love of freedom want to ban that song. And the BBC settles on a cackhanded ‘compromise’ by censorsing the song while pretending it is doing no such thing. Nothing, perhaps, could better express the inanity of contemporary politics than the crass, puerile controversy around […]
Categories: Britain, Culture & Books • Tags: british politics, margaret thatcher, music, protest songs, protests, thatcherism