https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQgkF_FsO4 Another one by the brilliant Billy Bragg, this time not about sexuality but instead about government policy. With no backing but his own electric guitar, Bragg sang the emotionally-charged Between The Wars via the first-person narrative of a miner, hoping his hard labour would be recognised by care from the government that his work helped support. Englishman Bragg wrote the tune while Welsh miners were on strike in 1991, and it featured on The Peel Session album. According to Bragg, he wrote half of the song in his friend's bathroom and when she wanted to get in, he finished it off on Wimbledon Common. A true English gent. The evocative number pleads for a government that won't deny a man a living wage, essentially. The narrative goes on to tell how times got harder, and when turning to the English government to help the working man, little was done. It's no wonder he is regarded as a true working class hero.