Articles by or about Billy Bragg

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Make the politicians listen to you...Traditional Tory supporters could be forgiven for raising a slightly sceptical eyebrow at David Cameron's recent promise to open his policy-making process to public debate.
(Daily Telegraph (UK), opinion, 27 June, 2007)...more

The Saturday Soap Box: We have to make Jerusalem England's national anthem...Welcome to our new weekly column where guests sound off on a current issue. Today, it's songwriter Billy Bragg...
(Daily Mirror newspaper (UK), article by Billy, 17 September, 2005)...more

The 5-minute interview...Billy Bragg is the patron of War Child, who are making an album involving 20 artists to mark the 10th anniversary of their CD 'Help!'
(The Independent newspaper, interview, 9 September 2005)...more

Building A Better Anthem...Am I the only person to feel a sense of embarrassment that England doesn't have its own national anthem?
(Article in the Guardian newspaper, 6 September 2005)...more

Nowhere else to go?...Billy Bragg weighs up John Harris's look at the alternatives to voting Labour, So Now Who Do We Vote For?
(The Guardian, book review, 22 January, 2005)...more

Must I paint you a picture - Billy Bragg in interview...“You’ve got to be engaged, haven’t you?”, says Billy Bragg, responding to questions about his extra-music political activities, activities that have ranged from writing opinion pieces on Englishness for major newspapers, like The Independent, to making serious proposals for the reform of the House of Lords.
(Interview with Andrew Lawless for Issue 6 of Three Monkeys Online Magazine, September 2004)...more

Slaying the racist dragon...Billy Bragg celebrates the contribution of the flag of St George and the England football team in furthering the cause of multiculturalism.
(Article in Red Pepper magazine (UK), published August 2004)...more

Go Lonnie Go...No blue plaque adorns the building. No fans come to pay respects. Nothing draws the attention of passers-by to the significance of 165 Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6. Yet here, something happened that changed the face of Britain.
(Article in the Guardian newspaper (UK), published 21 June 2004)...more

Billy Bragg: In the shadow of extreme nationalism...The EU, for all its faults, is the ultimate guarantor of the peace the D-Day generation fought to win
(Comment in Independent newspaper (UK), published 8 June 2004)...more

George On Our Mind...The English need to celebrate St George's Day, says Billy Bragg, while Martin Linton is glad that the day passes virtually unnoticed.
(Guardian newspaper, 24 April, 2004)...more