Poetic tale of the indie-rock scene
THE first line of Brett Anderson’s memoir – "This is a book about failure" – feels disingenuous given that by the end of it he is claiming to have laid "the foundations for the music that defined a decade".
Down with homework: novelist and former teacher Alan Bissett argues that after-school drudgery is a waste of time
A FEW years ago I found some of my old school jotters and leafed through them curiously, expecting lessons long-buried to come leaping off the page back to me.
