Frank Turner's (a)political stance is part of a post-ideological culture | Billy Bragg

Who can blame him? He's a singer-songwriter who came of age in a time when ideology was dumped in favour of triangulation"I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar/Then it meant that you were a protest singer" sang the Smiths in 1985. Lots of people seem to have thought that about Frank Turner until they read Michael Hann's blogpost highlighting anti-leftist comments that Turner had made in a 2009 interview.The singer-songwriter responded with a blogpost of his own, seeking to set the record ...

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