British rock star Elvis Costello tells the Telegraph his seminal hit “Oliver’s Army” has been retired from live shows over the inclusion of the line “Only takes one itchy trigger/ One more widow, one less white [n-word]”. “If I wrote that song today, maybe I’d think twice about it,” Costello says. “That’s what my [ethically Irish Catholic] grandfather was called in the British army – it’s historically a fact – but people hear that word go off like a bell and accuse me of something that I didn’t intend. On the last tour, I wrote a new verse about censorship, but what’s the point of that? So I’ve decided I’m not going to play it,” adding that radio stations are “making it worse by bleeping it for sure. Because they’re highlighting it then. Just don’t play the record!”