Glastonbury announces full 2024 lineup, adding James, Tems, Squeeze and more
Femi Kuti, Seasick Steve and Birmingham Royal Ballet among other artists added as festival announces full range of stage times
April 2024
Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed’
The activist singer-songwriter on fighting for trans rights, his 40 years in the music business and his forthcoming tour with his son
December 2023
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Billy Bragg review – from bard of Barking to golden voice
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography
November 2023
Flashback
Billy Bragg looks back: ‘I can’t compete with Taylor Swift. But I can talk to an audience’
The musician on East End violence, taking on Margaret Thatcher, and why he’ll always be ready with a protest song
October 2023
Brief letters
Timely reminder of George Osborne’s misogyny
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Billy Bragg: The Roaring Forty review – four decades of flying the flag
September 2023
Kick Out! The Newtown Neurotics Story review – punk rockers’ tale takes us back to the 80s
Documentary about the punk band from Essex, who toured with the likes of Billy Bragg, is a fascinating time-capsule of the politically-charged Thatcher years
August 2023
Oliver Anthony’s divisive song claiming solidarity with workers only benefits the rich who exploit them
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg releases pro-unionisation response song to viral country hit Rich Men North of Richmond
June 2023
Fatboy Slim backs appeal to allow onsite festival drug testing
‘People complained that I had my ass out’: all-star Glastonbury veterans advise festival first-timers
March 2023
Sticking with the union: Billy Bragg joins ABC staff on Sydney picket line
UK singer-songwriter played an acoustic Woody Guthrie song for members of the Community and Public Sector Union taking industrial action
August 2022
Cambridge Folk festival review – a safe but charming return
Crowd favourites Billy Bragg, Seasick Steve and Gipsy Kings share the bill with some daring international bookings for the festival’s contented return
June 2022
‘I popped the question. Of course she said yes – she was as wasted as I was’: the Glastonbury festival I’ll never forget
Billy Bragg, Joan Armatrading, Tim Jonze and Leonie Cooper reflect on their most magical days at Worthy Farm
From Billy Bragg to DJ Albo: what Anthony Albanese’s music taste says about him
Andrew Stafford
If he wants to be true to the values of the music he most cherishes, Australia’s new PM needs to seize the sea of possibilities created by a more diverse parliament
Billy Bragg hails election of old friend ‘Albo’ to Australian prime minister as Labor pledges arts rejuvenation
Arts minister Tony Burke declares the era of ‘neglect’ and ‘contempt’ for the arts and entertainment sector to be over
April 2022
‘That’s it? It’s over? I was 30. What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on
Musicians from Bob Geldof to Robbie Williams and Lisa Maffia reveal what they did – and how they felt – after the hits dried up and the crowds vanished
January 2022
How we made
How we made: Billy Bragg’s A New England
‘We heard John Peel on the radio asking for a mushroom biryani, so dropped one off at the BBC. Later that night, he played my record and I was away’
October 2021
Billy Bragg: ‘Boris was trolling me the whole time. We’ve got a wind-up merchant as PM’
As the bard of Barking tours a new album, he reflects on modern politics, his scraps with the Daily Mail and why he could do with listening a bit more
