Monday, 15 July 2024

Change in to white flannels, play from midday to sundown, breaking only for a cold lunch and a pint or two in the pavilion

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Every summer weekend during this opulent decade, young men from the City, or the Imperial Civil Service, or the newspaper and magazine world...
Sunday, 14 July 2024

The old postcards to not detect Maurilia as it was but a different city which, by chance, was called Maurilia

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It is pointless to ask whether the new ones are better or worse than the old, since there is no connection between them, just as the old pos...
Saturday, 13 July 2024

Fifty-six units a week as the safe upper limit for male alcohol consumption

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Back in 1982 both the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Journal’s ABC of alcohol were giving fifty-six units a week as ...
Friday, 12 July 2024

His Majesty was brought up on beer and so were his ancestors and his officers

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It is disgusting to notice the increase in coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. E...
Thursday, 11 July 2024

Britain ... accounted for over 90 per cent of all the sherry that was produced

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By the middle of the nineteenth century, sherry was so popular in Britain that it accounted for over 90 per cent of all the sherry that was ...
Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Heavy drinking has always been part of the British character

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Heavy drinking has always been part of the British character – and one that has differentiated the inhabitants of these islands from their n...
Monday, 8 July 2024

I got the impression that it was going to keep going without even getting going

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About ten years ago (actually, on checking the dates, it turns out to have been fourteen) I abandoned A Dance to the Music of Time after vo...