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...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...
...Sir, Your Person in the News column on the Queen (“Long has she reigned over us”, April 23) begins with a statement that the FT in 1926 published a brief notice on the birth of King George V and Queen Mary...
...Bragg took us swiftly not through space but time, compressing almost 40 years of British history into an hour – less a Big Dipper than a television Tardis, with the avuncular Cumbrian ticking off all the...
...From Billy Bragg to David Cameron, most of us now are basically Levellers at heart. Isn’t that enough of a parallel to be getting on with?...
...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...
..., which – as we both know – is going to pick up all the loud voices around us in the Notting Hill club next to her office....
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