It starts out with a buzz-saw of a string sample, drops in words like a whiplash and then carries on stinging. With a burning scorn for society, Plan B's "Ill Manors" is a bitterly articulate howl ...

Unfair, then, seemed the omission of 26-year-old retro-soul singer Ben Drew, aka Plan B. His rapturously funky debut single "Stay Too Long" hit the top 10 in January, follow-up "She Said" has been ...