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A New England
"A New England" is a song written and recorded by Billy Bragg, included on his album Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy, released in 1983.
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Activism
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.
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After Dark (TV series)
After Dark was a British late-night live discussion programme broadcast on Channel 4 television between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003.
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Alfred Hayes (writer)
Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States.
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Alternative country
Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and rock music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music.
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.
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Americana (music)
Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences.
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Americana Music Festival & Conference
The Americana Music Festival & Conference is a music festival and music industry conference that takes place every year (usually in September).
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Andy Kershaw
Andrew J. G. Kershaw (born 9 November 1959) is an English broadcaster, known for his interest in world music.
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Another Day in Paradise
"Another Day in Paradise" is a song recorded by English drummer, singer-songwriter Phil Collins.
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Appendicitis
Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix.
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Arica
Arica is a commune and a port city with a population of 196,590 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota Region.
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Artists and repertoire
Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Back to Basics (Billy Bragg album)
Back to Basics is a 1987 collection of Billy Bragg's first three releases: The albums Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy and Brewing Up with Billy Bragg and the EP Between The Wars.
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Barking
Barking is a town in East London, England, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the county of Essex.
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Barking Abbey School
Barking Abbey School is a secondary school located in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.
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Bethnal Green and Bow (UK Parliament constituency)
Bethnal Green and Bow (Contemp. RP) /ˈbɛθnl̩ ɡɹiːn ənd bəʊ/, (Cons. RP) /ˈbeθ-/, (Est. Eng.) /ˈbɛfnəw ɡɹiːn ən bəʊ/ is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Rushanara Ali of the Labour Party.
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Between the Wars (EP)
Between the Wars was an extended play released by Billy Bragg in 1985.
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Biryani
Biryani, also known as biriyani, biriani, birani or briyani, ¨spicy rice¨ is a South Asian mixed rice dish with its origins among the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.
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Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
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Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
Brewing Up with Billy Bragg is the second album by Billy Bragg, released in 1984.
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Brighton Pavilion (UK Parliament constituency)
Brighton Pavilion is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Caroline Lucas of the Green Party; who on being elected, became the first MP for that party in the United Kingdom.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.
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British National Party
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right and fascist political party in the United Kingdom.
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Burton Bradstock
Burton Bradstock is a village and civil parish in West Dorset, England, situated approximately southeast of Bridport and inland from the English Channel at Chesil Beach.
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Bush Theatre
The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Cara Tivey
Cara Tivey is an English pianist/keyboardist and vocalist who had mainly worked as a side musician.
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Caroline Lucas
Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British politician, and since 2 September 2016, Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, with Jonathan Bartley.
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.
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Chappell & Co.
Chappell & Co. was an English company that published music and manufactured pianos.
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Charisma Records
The Famous Charisma Label (Charisma for short) was a British record label founded in 1969 by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Childline
Childline is a counselling service for children and young people up to their 19th birthday in the United Kingdom provided by the NSPCC.
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Chiswick Records
Chiswick Records was a British independent record label.
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Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records is a British record label that was created in 1968.
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Clive Lewis (politician)
Clive Anthony Lewis (born 11 September 1971) is a British Labour politician who has been the member of parliament (MP) for Norwich South since winning the seat at the 2015 general election He studied at the University of Bradford before being elected to various student union roles and then serving as vice-president of the National Union of Students.
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Colin MacInnes
Colin MacInnes (20 August 1914 – 22 April 1976) was an English novelist and journalist.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.
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Cooking Vinyl
Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence.
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Country folk
Country folk as a genre label is a rather nebulous one, but one that has been employed often at least since the mid-1970s.
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Danny Thompson
Daniel Henry Edward "Danny" Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.
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David Selbourne
David Selbourne (born 4 June 1937) is a British political philosopher, social commentator and historian of ideas.
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Diggers' Song
The "Diggers' Song" (also known as "Levellers and Diggers") is a 17th-century ballad, in terms of content a protest song concerned with land rights, inspired by the Diggers movement, composed by Gerrard Winstanley.
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Dine Alone Records
Dine Alone Records is a Canadian independent record label, founded in St. Catharines and Toronto by Joel Carriere.
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Domino Recording Company
Domino Recording Company (also known as Domino Records, generally known as Domino) is a British independent record label based in London.
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Don't Try This at Home (Billy Bragg album)
Don't Try This at Home is the sixth full-length album by urban folk artist Billy Bragg.
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Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.
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Earl Robinson
Earl Hawley Robinson (July 2, 1910 – July 20, 1991) was a composer, arranger and folk music singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington.
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Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1978.
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Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015.
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Ed O'Brien
Edward John O'Brien (born 15 April 1968) is an English guitarist and member of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) is a book festival that takes place in the last three weeks of August every year in Charlotte Square in the centre of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh.
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Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
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England, Half-English
England, Half-English is a 2002 album by English political singer-songwriter Billy Bragg and The Blokes, and a song from that album.
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English nationalism
English nationalism is the nationalism that asserts that the English are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of English people.
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Essex
Essex is a county in the East of England.
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Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.
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Faces (band)
Faces were an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of Small Faces after lead singer/guitarist Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Folk punk
Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock.
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Folk rock
Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.
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Foundations (song)
"Foundations" is a song co-written by British singer-songwriter Kate Nash for her debut album, Made of Bricks (2007).
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Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright.
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George Galloway
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster and writer.
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Glasnost
In the Russian language the word glasnost (гла́сность) has several general and specific meanings.
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Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England.
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Go! Discs
Go! Discs was a London-based record label, launched in 1983 from offices in Wendell Road Shepherds Bush by Andy Macdonald and Lesley Symons after he left his job as Press Officer at Stiff Records and she provided the seed-funding.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Green Party of England and Wales
The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr) is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Gulf War
The Gulf War (2 August 199028 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 199017 January 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm (17 January 199128 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
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Hay Festival
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for ten days from May to June.
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Hilary Hook
Lieutenant-Colonel Hilary Hook (26 September 1917 – 14 September 1990) was a soldier in armies of the British Empire in India and later in Africa.
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Hillsborough disaster
The Hillsborough disaster was a human crush at Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield, England on 15 April 1989, during the 1988–89 FA Cup semi-final game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
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Homophobia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).
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Hope not Hate
Hope not Hate (stylized as HOPE not hate) is an advocacy group based in the United Kingdom that "campaigns to counter racism and fascism", and to "combine first class research with community organising and grassroots actions to defeat hate groups at elections and to build community resilience against extremism." It was created in 2004 by Nick Lowles, a former editor of anti-fascist magazine ''Searchlight'' (from which it split in late 2011).
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HuffPost
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.
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Hyde Park, London
Hyde Park is a Grade I-listed major park in Central London.
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Ian McLagan
Ian Patrick McLagan (12 May 1945 – 3 December 2014) was an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces.
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Indie folk
Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.
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Iraq War
The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.
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Isle of Wight (UK Parliament constituency)
Isle of Wight is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Bob Seely of the Conservative Party.
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Jail Guitar Doors
"Jail Guitar Doors" is a song by The Clash, recorded during October and November 1977 and released on 17 February 1978 as the b-side of their fourth single "Clash City Rockers".
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949).
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Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party leadership campaign, 2015
Jeremy Corbyn, the Member of Parliament for Islington North, stood as a candidate in the 2015 British Labour Party leadership election, in a successful campaign that made him the leader of the Labour Party.
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Jerry Dammers
Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra.
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Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer.
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Joe Henry
Joseph Lee Henry (born December 2, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.
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Joe Hill
Joe Hill (Gävle, Sweden, October 7, 1879 – Salt Lake City, Utah, November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies").
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Joe Strummer
John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was an English musician, singer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the Clash, a punk rock band formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk.
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John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.
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Jon Cruddas
Jonathan "Jon" Cruddas (born 7 April 1962) is a Labour Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2001, first for Dagenham and then for the successor constituency of Dagenham and Rainham.
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Kate Nash
Kate Marie Nash (born 6 July 1987) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and actress.
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King James Version
The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.
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Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer and songwriter.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
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Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2015
The 2015 Labour Party leadership election was won by Jeremy Corbyn with a landslide victory.
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Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2016
The 2016 Labour Party leadership election was called when a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party arose following criticism of his approach to the Remain campaign in the referendum on membership of the European Union and questions about his leadership of the party.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.
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Leon Rosselson
Leon Rosselson (born 22 June 1934, Harrow, Middlesex) is an English songwriter and writer of children's books.
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Liberal Democrats (UK)
The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.
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Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy
Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy is Billy Bragg's first album, released in 1983.
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London Assembly
The London Assembly is an elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject the Mayor's draft statutory strategies.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
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Mad (magazine)
Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine.
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Man in the Sand
Man in the Sand is a 1999 music documentary that chronicles the collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco, which involved the musicians creating new music to accompany lyrics that were written decades earlier by folk singer Woody Guthrie.
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March in March
March in March refers to a series of marches which were held around Australia on 15–16 March 2014, and in Canberra, the national capital, on 17 March 2014, a parliamentary sitting day.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
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Mastertapes
Mastertapes is a BBC Radio 4 programme, presented by John Wilson, which discusses the making of significant rock albums.
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MC5
MC5 was an American rock band from Lincoln Park, Michigan, formed in 1964.
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Mermaid Avenue
Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco.
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Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
Mermaid Avenue Vol.
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Michael Eavis
Michael Eavis CBE (born Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis; 17 October 1935) is an English dairy farmer and the creator of the Glastonbury Festival, which takes place at his farm in Pilton, Somerset.
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Micky Waller
Michael Waller (6 September 1941 – 29 April 2008) was an English drummer, who played with many of the biggest names on the UK rock and blues scene, after he became a professional musician in 1960.
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Middle England
The phrase "Middle England" is a socio-political term which generally refers to middle class or lower-middle class people in England who hold traditional conservative or right-wing views.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.
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Mini-LP
A mini-LP or mini-album is a short vinyl record album or LP, usually retailing at a lower price than an album that would be considered full-length.
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Mr Love & Justice
Mr Love & Justice is the twelfth studio album by folk-rock musician Billy Bragg, and the second to be recorded with his backing band The Blokes.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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Natalie Merchant
Natalie Anne Merchant (born October 26, 1963) is an American alternative rock singer-songwriter.
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New Music Seminar
The New Music Seminar (NMS) is a Music Conference and Festival held annually each June in New York City.
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News International phone hacking scandal
The News International phone-hacking scandal is a controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation.
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Nick Griffin
Nicholas John Griffin (born 1 March 1959) is a British politician who represented North West England as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.
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NME Awards
The NME Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine, NME (New Musical Express).
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Nora Guthrie
Nora Lee Guthrie (born January 2, 1950) is the daughter of American folk musician and singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie and his second wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, sister of singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie, and granddaughter of renowned Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt.
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Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.), archaically known as the County of Northampton, is a county in the East Midlands of England.
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Occupy movement
The Occupy movement is an international socio-political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of "real democracy" around the world.
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Ode to Joy
"Ode to Joy" (German), is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia.
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Oona King
Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow (born 22 October 1967) is a Labour politician and former chief diversity officer of Channel 4.
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Oundle
Oundle is a town on the River Nene in Northamptonshire, England, which had a population of 5,735 at the 2011 census.
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Owen Jones (writer)
Owen Peter Jones (born 8 August 1984) is a British newspaper columnist, commentator and left-wing political activist.
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Paul Mason (journalist)
Paul Mason (born 23 January 1960) is a British commentator and radio personality.
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Penal transportation
Penal transportation or transportation refers to the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.
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Perestroika
Perestroika (a) was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s until 1991 and is widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "openness") policy reform.
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Peter Jenner
Peter Jenner (born 1943) is a British music manager and a record producer.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.
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Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and distinctive voice.
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Potosí
Potosí is a capital city and a municipality of the department of Potosí in Bolivia.
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Prejudice
Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on that person's group membership.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.
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Proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems by which divisions into an electorate are reflected proportionately into the elected body.
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Protest song
A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events).
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Pub rock (United Kingdom)
Pub rock is a rock music genre that was developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, abbreviated as QRIH, was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed from the amalgamation of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958.
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Question Time (TV series)
Question Time is a BBC topical debate television programme in the United Kingdom, based on the radio programme Any Questions? The show typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by members of an audience selected on the basis of its political views and demographic.
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Radio Aire
Radio Aire is an Independent Local Radio station serving Leeds and West Yorkshire.
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Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.
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Ragtime
Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918.
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Recruit training
Recruit training, more commonly known as basic training or colloquially boot camp, refers to the initial instruction of new military personnel.
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Red Wedge
Red Wedge was a collective of musicians formed in the UK in 1985, who attempted to engage young people with politics in general, and the policies of the Labour Party in particular, during the period leading up to the 1987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.
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Reform of the House of Lords
Certain governments in the United Kingdom have, for more than a century, attempted to find a way to reform the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
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Respect Party
The Respect Party was a left-wing to far-left political party active in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2016.
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Richard Barnbrook
Richard Barnbrook (born 24 February 1961) is a British politician and an ex-member of the London Assembly.
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Rock Against Racism
Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a campaign set up in the United Kingdom in 1976 as a response to an increase in racial conflict and the growth of white nationalist groups such as the National Front.
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Royal Armoured Corps
The Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) provides the armour capability of the British Army, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle.
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Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland (Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba, Ryal Bank o Scotland, Banc Brenhinol yr Alban), commonly abbreviated as RBS, is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, together with NatWest and Ulster Bank.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
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Scottish independence
Scottish independence (Scots unthirldom; Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba) is a political aim of various political parties, advocacy groups, and individuals in Scotland (which is a country of the United Kingdom) for the country to become an independent sovereign state.
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Scottish independence referendum, 2014
A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom took place on Thursday 18 September 2014.
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Searchlight (magazine)
Searchlight is a British magazine, founded in 1975 by Gerry Gable, which publishes exposés about racism, antisemitism and fascism in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
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Sexism
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.
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Sexuality (Billy Bragg song)
"Sexuality" is the ninth track on Billy Bragg's 1991 album, Don't Try This at Home.
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Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father
Sgt.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt.
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She's Leaving Home
"She's Leaving Home" is a Lennon–McCartney song, released in 1967 on the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Shine a Light (Billy Bragg and Joe Henry album)
Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad is a 2017 album of field recordings made by British singer Billy Bragg and American musician Joe Henry in waiting rooms and trackside at railway stations on a journey between Chicago and Los Angeles in March 2016.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel.
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Sixty-Six Books
Sixty-Six Books was a set of plays premiered at the Bush Theatre in 2011, to mark the theatre's reopening on a new site and the 400th anniversary of the King James Version.
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Skiffle
Skiffle is a music genre with jazz, blues, folk and American folk influences, usually using a combination of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.
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Small Faces
Small Faces were an English rock band from East London.
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South Bank
South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district in central London, next to the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster.
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South Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
South Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Richard Drax, a Conservative.
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South Pasadena, California
South Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Speakers' Corner
A Speakers' Corner is an area where open-air public speaking, debate, and discussion are allowed.
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Spotify
Spotify Technology SA is a Swedish entertainment company founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
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Stiff Records
Stiff Records is a British independent record label formed in London, England, by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera (real name Andrew Jakeman).
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Street performance
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities.
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Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
The Symphony No.
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Tactical voting
In voting methods, tactical voting (or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting) occurs, in elections with more than two candidates, when a voter supports another candidate more strongly than their sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome.
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Talent manager
A talent manager (also known as an artist manager, band manager or music manager) is an individual or company who guides the professional career of artists in the entertainment industry.
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Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry is the third album by Billy Bragg, released in 1986.
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Teresa Gorman
Teresa Ellen Gorman (née Moore; 30 September 1931 – 28 August 2015) was a British politician.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
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The Clash
The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.
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The Communards
The Communards were a British pop duo active from 1985 to 1988.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Imagined Village
The Imagined Village is a folk musical project founded by Simon Emmerson of the Afro Celt Sound System.
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The Internationale
"The Internationale" (L'Internationale) is a left-wing anthem.
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The Internationale (album)
The Internationale is a 1990 album by Billy Bragg.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Quietus
The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine, focusing on arts news, reviews, and features.
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The Red Flag
"The Red Flag" is a socialist song, emphasising the sacrifices and solidarity of the international labour movement.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.
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The Style Council
The Style Council were an English band formed in 1983 by Paul Weller, the former singer, songwriter, and guitarist with the punk rock/new wave/mod revival band The Jam, and keyboardist Mick Talbot, previously a member of Dexys Midnight Runners, The Bureau and The Merton Parkas.
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TheGuardian.com
TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.
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Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival
The Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally is an annual festival held the village of Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, which celebrates the memory of the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
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Tooth & Nail (Billy Bragg album)
Tooth & Nail is a 2013 studio album by folk musician Billy Bragg.
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Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.
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Tulip Siddiq
Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, (টিউলিপ রেজওয়ানা সিদ্দীক; born 16 September 1982) is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician.
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UK miners' strike (1984–85)
The miners' strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures.
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UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Union Chapel, Islington
Union Chapel is a working church, live entertainment venue and charity drop-in centre for the homeless in Islington, London, England.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United Kingdom general election, 1983
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983.
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United Kingdom general election, 1987
The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom general election, 2001
The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.
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United Kingdom general election, 2005
The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the House of Commons.
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United Kingdom general election, 2015
The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons.
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United Kingdom general election, 2017
The 2017 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 8 June, having been announced just under two months earlier by Prime Minister Theresa May on 18 April 2017 after it was discussed at cabinet.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Virgin Records
Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Владимир Владимирович Маяковский; – 14 April 1930) was a Russian Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.
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Wayne Kramer (guitarist)
Wayne Kramer (born April 30, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer.
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Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, displaying an unusual mixture of medical artifacts and original artworks exploring "ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art".
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Welsh independence
Welsh independence (Annibyniaeth i Gymru) is a political ideal advocated by some political parties, advocacy groups, and people in Wales that would see Wales secede from the United Kingdom and become an independent sovereign state.
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West Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
West Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Sir Oliver Letwin, a Conservative.
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Wet Wet Wet
Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish band formed in 1982.
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Wilco
Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois.
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William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.
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William Bloke
William Bloke is the seventh album by alternative folk artist Billy Bragg, released in 1996, five years after his last studio album.
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With a Little Help from My Friends
"With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.
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Workers Playtime (album)
Workers Playtime is a 1988 album by Billy Bragg.
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World of Music, Arts and Dance
WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) is an international arts festival.
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XL Recordings
XL Recordings is a British independent record label founded in 1989 by Richard Russell, Tim Palmer and Nick Halkes.
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4AD
4AD is a British independent record label, founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1980.
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References
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