Admiral Cod

"I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let...

Like shit-faced gatecrashers at your hot girlfriend's 21st birthday bash, certain life changes have in recent months impressed themselve...

When thinking about the 1990s, I reckon there were three things, culturally-speaking of course, that got me through the decade: 1) alcohol, ...

Do you play tennis? I do. Or at least, I did. In my youth I was club champion in my age group. My height and reach gave me an advantage. I w...

The era of the Sloane Ranger now seems as distant as the Fifties By Peter Whittle Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Amazing as it may seem, it ...

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...