Becky Clark 3/24/24 Becky Clark 3/24/24

Ice, Ice, Maybe: A Grey Glacier Diary

Wet feet, pisco sours, and the wonders of nature in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.

Becky Clark 1/18/24 Becky Clark 1/18/24

Blue Is The New Plaque

On the sanctity of Britain’s blue plaque scheme—and the delightful hoaxes it inspires.

Tim Cooper 1/12/24 Tim Cooper 1/12/24

I Once Met (But Didn’t Realise)… David Soul

RIP Hutch.

Tim Cooper 12/1/23 Tim Cooper 12/1/23

RIP Shane

Tim Cooper pays tribute to fellow punk, Shane MacGowan.

Tim Cooper 11/27/23 Tim Cooper 11/27/23

Farewell to El Tel

How I would bend the ear of the late Terry Venables.

Richard Simon 11/25/23 Richard Simon 11/25/23

The Double Afterlife of Maali Almeida

How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

Dominic Hilton 11/21/23 Dominic Hilton 11/21/23

JFK & Me

To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dominic Hilton recalls his giddy days in “Camelot”.

Dominic Hilton 10/12/23 Dominic Hilton 10/12/23

The Chairman Will Take Wine

Full transcript of four speeches made by the hastily-appointed Toastmaster at the Annual Oxford and Cambridge Universities Dinner at the Residence of the British Ambassador to Argentina, on Thursday October 5th 2023.

ASH Smyth 10/2/23 ASH Smyth 10/2/23

Asbestos, Champagne, and a Pirate Ship

A pal picks up the exceedingly prestigious Polar Medal.

ASH Smyth 9/27/23 ASH Smyth 9/27/23

Post-Millennial Observances

In celebration of the Meskel festival, ASH Smyth recalls his trip to Ethiopia’s Camelot, some 16 years ago.

Dominic Hilton 9/19/23 Dominic Hilton 9/19/23

Insanetiago

On the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Chile, Dominic Hilton remembers an ill-fated city break he took to Santiago a few weeks before the start of the global pandemic.

Richard Simon 5/27/23 Richard Simon 5/27/23

The Amis Effect: A Fan Piece

Martin Amis was someone I thought of as a kind of elder sibling, hero, avatar, even scapegoat.

Jack Shamash 4/19/23 Jack Shamash 4/19/23

Snow Dog: Canine Conquest of the Pole

In 1909, a team led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen set off to reach the South Pole. Here, for the first time, is an account of the expedition from the point of view of one of his dogs.