The English Dandy: Who, Sir? Me, Sir?
Margaret May muses on the erstwhile English Dandy – his emergence, his rise to pre-eminence…
Browsing: The Idler
The Changing of the Guard
Readers, he’s back. Edwardian Britain’s most charismatic trickster, and in an entirely new scheme- ahem, adventure.…
Waterloo
The Southbank is an interesting place. It is the intersection of so many different parts.…
The Pursuit of Idleness
What a delectable notion is the concept of idleness. The very word conjures up a…
A Tubular Experience
For those of us that live there the London Underground is one of life’s mundane…
Al Alvarez: A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Of all the characters I have encountered at the pond over the years, he has…
The Priest
The old priest was dying. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer six months or…
A Comedian in Tennessee, Part II
In the second part of his stint gigging in Dollywood, Angus Dunican discovers both an…
A Comedian in Tennessee, Part I
As the Edinburgh Festival gets underway, Angus Dunican reflects on jobs comedians take out of season.…
The Gower Street Hoax, Part II
In the second part of Rupert Millar’s Edwardian caper, Thaddeus’s plan has come together and…
The Gower Street Hoax
Following the hapless buffoonery of Biffo and Mungo foiling the dastardly plans of Baron von…
The Secret Army Aeroplane, Part III
The Secret Army Aeroplane, Part III (In which, imprisoned by the devious Baron von Spätlese, our…