Making Plans for Steel Is an Eternal UK Song

Steelmaking in the UK has been in decline for a long time — so long that even the 1979 XTC hit Making Plans for Nigel, which envisioned its subject having his future “as good as sealed” with a job at British Steel, was a satire on out-of-touch parents. At that point, the industry had already shed te...

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