Melvyn Bragg
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
A farewell to a brilliant broadcaster
Melvyn Bragg has declared his innings closed after 27 years
A lot to Bragg about
Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time” has been a rare civilised outpost at the BBC
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It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Storycraft is soulcraft
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Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul