Melvyn Bragg takes his cue from Heloise and Abelard, musician Billy Bragg reflects on freedom, and some joyful musings from biographer Michael Holroyd
The singer turned author has a flair for pamphleteering. As he fumes midway through this short, sharp broadside: “This is a time of dismissive demagogues promoting a know-nothing politics of swaggering arrogance driven by scorn and spite.” The scoundrels of the piece are many and range from the predictable to the slightly less so . Our sole defence,
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