Kate Tempest Laments Massive Humanitarian Crisis as Europe and US Is Lost

Poet Kate Tempest's extraordinary song 'Europe Is Lost' is set to images of everything from the US election to Isis, the KKK to Trump, beauty pageants to apocalyptic film scenes, all artfully cut together by Manuel Braun.

In a recent interview Tempest told The Independent that "we are living in absolute fucking madness".

"It's too late now. It's gone beyond somebody being right and somebody being wrong," she said. "It's far too late. "We're in the middle of a massive humanitarian crisis."

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