I suppose songs complaining about how the champagne on the last flight was non vintage doesn't have the same edge as one about the factory polluting the water supply.

I remain bemused by the many politically inspired mining songs that have sprung up on the folk scene over the last 35 years. As an ex miner I should feel an affinity with them, but like most actual miners, I don't recognise much beyond the reality.

Reality isn't romantic enough sometimes....