The Big Read: Let's not party like it's 1995

Twenty years ago almost to the day, Francois Pienaar and his band played the Rugby World Cup final. It's one of the disturbing tricks of the light of living an increasingly long time that so many anniversaries keep constantly ticking by, as though real life doesn't happen any more and every day or every minute is just the memento of some other mori - Jaws was released 40 years ago! Kurt Cobain's been dead for 21 years! It's been 10 years since the first human being became intolerant to gluten! ...