Artistic licence: No Direction home

So long, good luck: Zayn Malik (centre) with his now former bandmates

You had your money on Harry Styles, didn’t you? The most popular member of One Direction, all tousled, Michael Hutchence-like hair, open shirt and badly thought-out tattoos, Styles always looked like the wild boy who would cut loose from Britain’s biggest boy band first. The Robbie, if you will. But in the end, it was Zayn Malik, the handsome, quiet, engaged Bradford boy, and arguably the best singer in the band – who ...