Wetherspoons pubs are a bit divisive. I’m not a big fan, having found standards vary considerably from one to the other – the Winter Gardens in Harrogate is surprisingly upmarket, while The Gatehouse ...

I remember where I was, what I was eating and what I was reading the first time I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op 48 No. 1. It was the early 1990s. Simply Red, Kylie and PM Dawn dominated the ...