Admiral Cod

(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...

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As you may have heard, my new editor just bought me a Bedouin keffiyeh, or shemagh, to help me cope with the recent cold, damp weather here ...

As you know, the climate here in recent weeks has been positively freezing, with some nights actually dipping into the 40s. Arctic condition...

...Come, my friends. 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my pu...

Pop the champagne! The gents at The Chap journal have set up a shop ( here ) selling, amongst other things, brogues, trilbys, and cravats. I...

"...The Western way of life is less and less likely to become the leading model. There are meaningful warnings that history gives a thr...