The punks still form part of the soundtrack of our times, but the radical anger has gone. The nasty spate of riots that swept the country in 2011 looked like shopping with violence, rather than a radical uprising of any kind. Somebody will always play a bit of Clash, a bit of Pistols and The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’ on the soundtrack to the News. The music still gets played, but the Freak Culture from which the punks sprang, and which they revitalised for a time, has gone. The Ramones are a popular T-shirt.
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