25. January 2018

The Haggis is eaten and a toast to all is said. Though my Scots blood is as thin as a teetotallers dram I have eaten haggis on almost every burns night since I was a child, though it remains a hearty treat throughout the year.

03. January 2018

Christopher Hitchens asks you to ignore Yoko Ono and John Lennon and heed the tea-making advice of George Orwell instead.....

02. January 2018

George Orwell writing in the Evening Standard of January 1946 put forward eleven points to making the perfect cup of tea, he wrote of his eleven points that two may be seen as generally agreeable and at least four controversial, whilst all eleven should be regarded as "golden".....

22. October 2017

I have friends who tell me that whiskey should be drunk neat whilst others advise dilution, that only a single drop of water at room temperature should be added before consumption - the theory that it will raise the drinks temperature and so release flavour.....