Like a book club but for cocktails. Every Friday, around 4pm GMT, I will send a classic recipe to your inbox together with a specially curated musical playlist to match - plus essays, links, literary talk, portals to more elegant dimensions, etc.
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The moment feels auspicious. Britain is due for its seventh Prime Minister in as many weeks. We are approaching the tenth anniversary of “Take Back Control”. Football is coming home. And moreover it is hot. Unbelievably hot. The...
The Spirits #198: The French Martini
~ THE FRENCH MARTINI ~
50ml vodka
15ml Chambord (but see note 3)
30ml pineapple juice
~5ml lemon juice
~5ml sugar syrup
Dash Peychaud’s bitters (optional)
Freeze a glass and for heaven’s sake make sure it is V-shaped. Add...
Searching for He-Man
The masculinist politics of The Masters of the Universe
ON the beautiful planet of Eternia, an epic battle rages between good and evil. Here, the men really do get to be men — and if you’re a prince, like blonde-haired blue-eyed Adam, your...
The Spirits #197: The Champs-Elysées
I should state here and now that I emphatically disapprove of cocktails
~ THE CHAMPS-ELYSÉES ~
The Richest Man Ever to Have Lived
An attempt to place Elon Musk's trillions in a historical context
The below is an update of a magazine article I wrote in 2024, which was for various reasons never published. It was initially prompted by news that Elon Musk was on track to...
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