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Review: The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life by Lyndsy Spence 21 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
Quite the most delightful book release of the season is Lyndsy Spence's The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life. Each afternoon these past few days, at around three, I revived the gilt-rimmed bone china, pou...
William Cash - one of the WI pensioners bites back 16 Aug 2013 | 02:18 pm
Cool reception: The Gatehouse, Upton Cressett Hall, Shropshire Further to my post yesterday on the banning of a Women's Institute branch from William Cash's Grade 1 Elizabethan moated manor house in ...
William Cash bans 27 WI pensioners from home over loo row 16 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
Upton Cressett Hall in Shropshire It has been ages since I wrote of the poppetiest of the Arcati poppets, William Cash. To be brutally honest, when I warm to someone I tend to lose interest. The thaw...
Eric Joyce MP - the abstract painting that created the fuss 10 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
The recent fuss about Eric Joyce MP and his tigressy moll India Knight stirred up some media confusion. The wonderful artist M.K. Hajdin has revealed that she produced two artworks of or for the livel...
Gore Vidal, Fred Astaire and the cock size question 9 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Will Gore Vidal be remembered 50 years from now? I doubt it. Myra Breckinridge will, by 2063, be a forgotten contribution to a vast library of late 20th century transgressive fiction. Vidal's first ga...
Eric Joyce MP portrait - and an odd Knight tale 7 Aug 2013 | 12:33 am
Sketch of Eric Joyce MP. By M.K. Hajdin. Reproduced by kind permission Arcatistes of old will know that I love to showcase the work of original artists. So allow me to introduce you to M. K. Hajdin ...
Hilary Gialerakis: After the Vaselined big one, the sale! 1 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Ash Wednesday (The Lady and the Leopards) by Hilary Gialerakis. Photography by Roger Smith Was it really five years ago that I ran a piece here titled: 'Hilary Gialerakis: Bullet holes, Brian Sewell ...
Amanda Eliasch: Fame, movie acclaim and cakes of sperm 30 Jul 2013 | 11:53 pm
Amanda Eliasch I like my weirdos glam and clever. Weirdo? A person who manifests her or his organic interior in a fascinating, creative, non-homicidal way. This blog is peopled with natural weirdos -...
Mary Beard outs Oliver Eric Rawlings over Twitter abuse 29 Jul 2013 | 11:04 pm
Cambridge classicist Mary Beard has once again been trolled on Twitter - this time by some bearded twat called Oliver Eric Rawlings. He looks the sort of man who scratches his scrotal sac in public pl...
Lyndsy Spence & the magical Mitford guide to life, the universe and everything 27 Jul 2013 | 12:12 am
Lyndsy Spence with first-ever copy of her new book Adorable is one word to describe an author on the cusp of fame. Remembering Lyndsy Spence's name won't be hard - even if the Christian bit appears t...
