Today marks the end of the Evening Standard in printed form. Outside London no-one cares, and within the capital the paper’s absence will be scarcely be noticed by the end of the week, let alone the end of the month. London’s last surviving multi-edition newspaper has been on a downward spiral for years, and its …
Monthly Archive: September 2024
Sep 03
When bagpipes rocked the world – Alan Stivell and the making of modern Brittany
A much shorter version of the following will appear in a future issue of the bimonthly magazine, the Idler: These days Breton folk music rarely travels east of Rennes or south of Nantes, let alone north of Roscoff. Radio 2’s flagship folk programme devotes airtime to francophone artists from Louisiana and Quebec, and yet it …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
