Dear Ed Sheeran, fence-sitting is so last century: musicians can no longer opt out of politics | Zoe Williams

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Dear Ed Sheeran, fence-sitting is so last century: musicians can no longer opt out of politics | Zoe Williams

It’s all very 2026: with a stadium owner on one side and angry support acts on the other, the cornered star will have to pick a side Ed Sheeran, seeking to stay out of politics, has become, in this moment, the most political artist in the world. And in trying to leave himself room to manoeuvre, he has backed himself into a corner. Since the rapper Macklemore was dropped as a support act on Sheeran’s Loop tour on Mond…