{"id":46889,"date":"2018-06-26T01:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/26\/britain-is-becoming-a-stupid-country-melvyn-bragg-says\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T01:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:01:17","slug":"britain-is-becoming-a-stupid-country-melvyn-bragg-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=46889","title":{"rendered":"Britain is becoming a stupid country, Melvyn Bragg says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcaster argues \u2018best university system in the world\u2019 is being carelessly destroyedMelvyn Bragg has said Britain is becoming a stupid country, in part because its university system is being destroyed.The broadcaster and Labour peer criticised the state of British higher education in an interview with the magazine Radio Times. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/jun\/26\/britain-is-becoming-a-stupid-country-melvyn-bragg-says\" target=\"_blank\">Britain is becoming a stupid country, Melvyn Bragg says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcaster argues \u2018best university system in the world\u2019 is being carelessly destroyedMelvyn Bragg has said Britain is becoming a stupid country, in part because its university system is being destroyed.The broadcaster and Labour peer criticised the state of British higher education in an interview with the magazine Radio Times. Continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}