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...Earrings, model’s own Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello wool polo shirt, £755, and V-neck vest, £620. Acne Studios wool skirt, £500....
...If this period of lockdown has taught me anything (the ceaseless value of Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time podcast notwithstanding), it’s that one really must appreciate the small pleasures in life when and where...
...Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World, by Billy Bragg, Faber, RRP£20/$29.95 British singer-songwriter Billy Bragg turns author with a skilful history of skiffle, the 1950s craze that...
...Morrissey, you might argue, was a lot closer to the views of the ordinary working man than Bob Geldof on his chartered gin palace flicking V-signs at Brexit-voting fishermen....
...John Bragg Dorridge, W Midlands, UK...
...obvious names as we tumbled from the coronation of George V to the marriage of his granddaughter, Elizabeth Windsor....
...In a corridor at the V&A a Cruikshank print lampoons the latest preposterous fashions in Hyde Park in 1822....
...Billy Bragg, the songwriter, pointed out: “The only occasion you’ll need an official document to prove you are English is if you are chosen to represent the country at sport.”...
...The tree is at the V&A’s Cromwell Road entrance until January 6 2008; ‘The Golden Age of Couture’, featuring Boudicca, is also at the V&A until January 6 Vanessa Friedman is the FT’s fashion editor Needles...
...A more demotic tone arrived in 1976 on the BBC with Melvyn Bragg’s Read All About It, in which a lively collection of media types talked about the latest paperbacks....
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