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Billy Bragg: Don't Try This At Home

Mat Snow, Q, October 1991

"WHAT DO they know of England who only England know?" enquires Billy Bragg, Bard of Barking. He is quoting, with a tiny adjustment, Rudyard Kipling, Bard of the British Empire – a measure of how far the generously bugled super-busker has matured.

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