An excellent video for the new Coldplay single Violet Hill can be found here; an interesting montage of dancing politicians and soldiers, with the odd disconcerting image of violence thrown in.
One of the harshest songs I've come across recently is from perennial favourites Elbow and the song Snowball from the 'Help- A Day in the Life' album:
...When the pills you take
No longer help you
You're fading in your chair
And would've met him
We see the lightning
You hear the birdsong
You hear the voices you've been holding off for so long
Words around you
And then a hurricane
A hundred thousand souls
And everyone in pain
We'll come and visit you
We'll come and visit you
This is on the day that David Davis the Shadow Home Secretary resigned his seat in protest to the 42 days detention law passed by the House of Commons. It looks to be a very honourable thing to do: a show of conviction so often lacking in modern politicians, and it should be applauded. But I do have the nagging feeling it is going to perhaps backfire a little...
