Indecent Prepositions
Train travel; romanticised by writers from Paul Theroux to Graham Greene, hailed by many as the most elegant form of long distance travel, allowing one to escape from the foibles of the modern world. Or so we like to think…
Browsing: The Lifestyle
The Dark Knight of Knightsbridge
Under London’s grey sky, I sidled up to the office to take delivery of my…
There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills
When his classic Mercedes packs up one cold afternoon, leaving him stranded in the depths of South London, Paul Joyce finds solace in a good book, a great magazine, and discovers that he may just have the Midas touch…
On the Milieu of Overpriced Veg
Charlie Hill, author of The Space Between Things, reports on a vegetable-based scandal that has rocked the world of the organic eco-warrior. It is a sordid tale of deception, and one that will stay with you for many a moon…
Perils of the Party Season
Groan. It’s that time of year again, when we young, sprightly females are supposed to…
It’s Not Cricket
Armies of bleary-eyed people will be staggering into work in the next few weeks and…
A Stately Cruiser: The Jaguar XJ
When you get a call asking if you’d like to test drive the latest in…
A Political Musing
Just because something is done a certain way, and has been ever thus, doesn’t necessarily…
Café Goya
Roving explorer Harry Chapman ventures into the badlands of Pimlico to the outpost known as Café Goya; a colourful mise-en-scène of spivs and bankers, harlots and dowagers, thugs and officers, and a gentleman.
Hello, Boys…Listen Carefully
Buying lingerie for a loved one is an activity that men find unbearably awkward, and with Christmas looming, chaps across the country are quaking in their brogues at the prospect of lace and nylon purgatory. Fear not, help is at hand…
Autumnal Grace
Recent visitors to the ‘Grace Kelly, Style Icon’ exhibition at the V&A will most likely…
Words: Know Your Place
It’s that time again. The elegant Miss York gives us a lesson in words, their place, and the hilarious dangling clause. Please open your notebooks, have your pencils at the ready, and you there at the back, stop that whispering!