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...While the Yorkshireman declares that he “can’t stop” working, a four-part series, Celebrating David Hockney, is set to be Melvyn Bragg’s final outing as host of The South Bank Show after nearly half a century...
...Unprecedented matters of law are not the only hurdles facing Bragg....
...Earlier this year, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg also charged Trump in connection with alleged hush money payments to a porn actress....
...But this speech gives me pause,” David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s former political strategist, wrote on Twitter. “Does even his base want to hear this for the next two years or six?”...
...David Pecker The one-time king of America’s supermarket tabloids and publisher of the National Enquirer is a longtime Trump friend and Palm Beach denizen....
...Climate Exchange: David Craig, co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, on how our economy is completely dependent on nature....
...There will be no disruption to the Week Ahead service, however, as I am leaving that duty in the very capable hands of my colleague on FT Edit David Hindley....
...Billy Bragg’s “Between The Wars” has worn better than his “England, Half English”; a Levellers rarity, “The Recruiting Sergeant”, recorded with the Copper Family, has the fury of The Pogues, while Edward...
...Bay Garnett, stylistThe podcast I’ve been listening to is Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time – especially if I’m a bit bored or restless....
...A century on, Fort Bragg — a name that was intended to unify — has become a symbol of division....
...No more Fort Braggs, or Lee Highways or statues of southern generals. They fought for a cause that was unremittingly evil and should not be honoured....
...from saz to cumbus to oud, is a world music journeyman who has served alongside Billy Bragg, John Lydon and Yat-Kha....
...He built up a team of talented researchers including David (later Lord) Phillips and Louise (later Dame) Johnson....
...“You want to take risk when you have conviction that risk will be rewarded,” said Ed Keon, chief investment strategist of QMA. “We just don’t have conviction right now.”...
...Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World, by Billy Bragg, Faber, RRP£20/$29.95 1956 was “a revolutionary moment in British popular music”, Billy Bragg writes....
...“When I grew up, the [American abstract impressionist] painter John Hubbard and his children were friends,” explains Bridport-based sculptor David Worthington....
...Five hours after I passed veteran protest singer Billy Bragg singing “I Keep Faith” in the Left Field tent, he was to be found singing exactly the same song in the same place, a stuck record....
...Veteran writers David Hare and Caryl Churchill both lift off into more surreal territory....
...To improve on that they will need more people like David Walker....
...David Cameron has done his best to make up for Tory losses, appointing more peers than any prime minister since life peerages were introduced in 1958....
...Sir, Dan Fox (“Pretentious — and proud”, Life & Arts, February 6) quotes Billy Bragg’s inaccurate but widely repeated assertions that David Bowie grew up on a council estate and went to art college....
...Mr Corbyn led fellow left-wingers on a rendition of the Red Flag, the Labour anthem, alongside the socialist singer Billy Bragg....
...Brixton-born David Bowie came through those doors, educated at Croydon College’s School of Art....
...David Cameron, his successor, is happier waxing lyrical about family ties, military clout and business advantage....
...sides of the English-Scottish border, entertainers including Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir Cliff Richard, Ronnie Corbett and Eddie Izzard mingle with highbrow personalities including Mary Beard, Simon Schama and David...
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