Sir, Dan Fox (“Pretentious — and proud”, Life & Arts, February 6) quotes Billy Bragg’s inaccurate but widely repeated assertions that David Bowie grew up on a council estate and went to art college.

Shortly after announcing plans to release a reunion album, rock-gaze legends Swervedriver have unveiled the record’s third track: “Autodidact.” Following the effort’s first single, “Deep Wound” ...

When Bill Gates was still a teenager, he would sneak out of his family’s house before dawn and ride his bike to a building on the campus of the University of Washington. He had discovered that the ...

Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week’s word: ...