Top Ten Anti-Thatcher Songs
(Why Thatcher antipathy inspired so many good songs and Trump antipathy has inspired so few (if any), I don’t know. I’ve arranged these in order of preference.)
Tramp the Dirt Down by Elvis Costello
Black Boys on Mopeds by Sinead O’Connor
Spirit of the Falklands by New Model Army
Between the Wars by Billy Bragg
Witch in the Ditch by Erasure *
Stand Down Margaret by The Beat
Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tears for Fears
Margaret on the Guillotine by Morrissey
Blue by Fine Young Cannibals
She’s Only the Grocer’s Daughter by The Television Personalities
* A shaky candidate. Vince Clarke and Andy Bell once claimed in an interview that this was an anti-Thatcher song, though they might have been answering facetiously.
— August 30, 2022