Admiral Cod

Trevor Myburgh is author of the forthcoming The Hotchkiss Quandary (Castelmann, 2017) and a co-founder of the Tradpunk literary movement. H...

Never trust a man with sideburns. It is a motto by which I have lived my life, and I think you should too. I think sideburns are repulsive a...

I used to work for a European-based private bank in Southern California. My clients were successful, educated professionals looking for inve...

"Faced as we are with this destiny, there is only one world-outlook that is worthy of us, that which has already been mentioned as the ...

I have long thought that certain people, like certain dog breeds, should come with a training manual. Success in a friendship requires one t...

Last Saturday night, as the storm clouds gathered on the horizon and I lit a Montecristo No. 2 cigar, I was seized by a mild panic. Should a...

Tolkien in Tweed may be redundant. Did the man wear anything else? Judging by the photographic record, evidently not. Which makes him even m...

The recent receipt of an Orvis Bush Pilot Jacket as a present has shifted my thinking on leather jackets. The new jacket from Orvis is mad...

As you may well have noticed, the season of Tweed is almost upon us. I have therefore decided, in keeping with the times, to publish on an ...

If the way to a chap is through his stomach, then I must be thoroughly beaten. I admit it: I am mad for masala. Chicken tikka masala, to be...

*Single-breasted, two-button, twin-vented charcoal Brooks Brothers MTM (Martin Greenfield) suit (with pink lining) *Brooks Brothers shirt wi...

A snapshot of Marie-Rose Morel, a member of the Flemish parliament for the Vlaams Belang party in Belgium. As we have seen, bitter controver...

In early summer I bought a pair of white bucks for a planned series of events, amongst them the various proceedings surrounding my wedding. ...

"Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, ...

As the summer season draws to an end, my mind casts about for sartorial inspiration. Few things get my juices flowing more than the sight of...

Following our recent two-event marriage ceremony, the first at a local religious establishment and the other at a beach resort, my new bride...

View To A Thrill: In the Seychelles with James Bond Sunday, 9 July 2006 It was the spring of 1958 when Ian Fleming first set foot on Mah...

It is with a modicum of penitence that I announce the number of posts here will start to diminish over the next several weeks. The summer se...

How often do you polish your brogues? I break out the shoe maintenance kit probably every 6 weeks or so. And this is only for the shoes I we...

A close-up of my favourite suit, a single-breasted, two-button navy chalk stripe number by Southwick. As you know, I have a thing for South...

Congratulations to the Spanish team for the Euro 2008 Championship.

Is wine-drinking an art or a calling? In my case, the latter, decidedly so. After all I have spent more than twenty-two years pursuing it....