Ed Cumming Edward Cumming The Fence Magazine Mine is a professor of Latin American studies. I love this.

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Ed Cumming Edward Cumming The Fence Magazine Lord Trousers took my name for his nostalgic gentleman's clothing brand. If you need a monocle, silk pocket square, or regimental Panama hat with my name on it, this is the place for you.

Ed Cumming Edward Cumming The Fence Magazine I have a counterpart some 40+ years older who is a successful geologist. I know this because Academia.edu regularly asks if I've written articles about some continental shelf or another. I'm weighing up at which point I can attend a conference in their stead.

The only other living Joseph Hone was in the same year as me at university. He was tall, dark, and handsome, and a high-flying law student. Bastard.

Shogun: the definitive review

Very funny piece by James Marriott on podcasts today thetimes.co.uk/article/6378c7…

‘Back in the day of the York Minster, you could be barred for being boring, but never for being drunk.’

Charlotte Ivers steps back into seventies Soho, trying to live — and drink — like the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker.

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Title race against City

'Every book club has its ayatollah, usually the founder. The role brings out despotic tendencies.' spectator.co.uk/article/how-th…

‘I had no job, money. I was going down the local Odeon to nick loo roll. I recall lying flat down on the floor wanting to cry, then laughing hysterically at the absurdity of being totally stuffed at that young age. So I got up & started writing Withnail’

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Since the hack the British Library has a kind of Goldilocks reduced wifi, which is fast enough to look things up and send emails, but too slow for it to be fun doing much else. Perfect. Offices should follow suit

The really impressive thing about Bill Nighy is the way he manages to maintain an impeccable public image - friendly, dapper, erudite - while remaining fundamentally inscrutable. A model for other celebrities

incredible scenes on BBC Breakfast

There are fields, Neo. Endless fields

Lara spoke to JOEL GOLBY STAN ACCOUNT for this week’s The Spectator Table Talk and it was most entertaining audioboom.com/posts/8494692-…

Very poor form to publish this with no credit, let alone to fillet it without permission from the family involved UNILAD Kit Roberts
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Sports Personality of the Year

Happy Birthday Shakespeare! Here's Peter Sellers doing a Hard Day's Night in the style of Olivier's Richard III youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMnc…

Working Title Film Imminent