Admiral Cod

My father died three weeks ago. He succumbed struggling with numerous complications after a three-month fight following open-heart surgery. ...

"A mother's love for the child of her body differs essentially from all other affections, and burns with so clear and steady a flam...

"Contre l'Etat technicisé omniprésent...le recours aux forêts réelles ou symboliques où se réfugiaient autrefois les hors-la-loi i...

Recent capital market gyrations have encouraged me to rummage round my walk-in closet and get out my banker kit. In the photo (above) I am d...

Women and weed rightly belong to the world of young men. For more settled chaps such as yours truly, their very availability is temptation ...

(i) Today our people exist in a modern techno-managerial state whose increasingly authoritarian form of rule is directly proportional to soc...

During our honeymoon tour of the Indian Ocean and East Africa late last year, my new bride and I travelled in the Seychelles, including a st...

Does anyone, I wonder, remember this most delightful televisual programme from the 1980s? It aired (if that is the right term) in the late 1...

"For any authority, however flexible and however enlightened, must in the last resort of all depend upon respect. In King’s we were all...

My research at the BFI National Archives has uncovered footage of the Eton Wall Game from 1921. Played at Eton College every St. Andrew'...

I like to imagine this angry young American is wearing a pair of black longwing brogues, perhaps from Alden, J.Press, or J.Crew. The specs a...

The Four Yorkshiremen, with Harry Enfield, Alan Rickman, Eddie Izzard, and Vic Reeves. I watch this video regularly and it never fails to cr...

"This drawing is printed in my consciousness" (5:06) 6/8 1/8 2/8 3/8 4/8 5/8 6/8 7/8 8/8

Tonight I co-hosted an investment seminar at a local beach resort. It was a casual event. I wore a lightweight Paul Stuart tweed coat in a t...

The photograph (left) depicts George Adamson (1906-1989), the renowned East African game ranger, conservationist, author, and film maker. Bo...

"Les actions les plus efficaces, c'est-à-dire les actions d'avant-garde, ne furent pas menées l'insigne à la boutonnière et...