Mathew Cartlidge quit school before his GCSEs to commit to the band he formed with his sister. “It wasn’t really a big decision to me,” 17-year-old Cartlidge says. “I was always pretty serious about i

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It was in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where Reg, the leader of the People’s Front of Judea, played by John Cleese, asks his followers “What have the Romans ever done for us?” Amusingly his disciples