Readers recommend: songs about scandal – results

The Irish church institutions to Native American oppression, apartheid to oil exploitation, RR’s redoubtable regular sonofwebcore picks a scandalous playlist from last week’s topic
Though set in Ireland, Joni Mitchell’s The Magdalene Laundries, might well be about any of those institutions which exploited vulnerable young women on three continents between 1758 and the late 20th century. Her focus is fixed on the plight of the institutionalised Irish, who had it bad, more than 3