St James’s

A lunch good enough to lift Tory spirits

22 June 2024 9:00 am

Things could have been worse. My host was determined to lunch al fresco, and after all it was late June.…

Another pink gin please

13 August 2022 9:00 am

At the height of the IRA’s terrorist campaign on mainland Britain in December 1974, a bomb was lobbed through the…

High life

1 February 2020 9:00 am

I was walking up St James’s and happy to be in London. For a change I was not rushing but…

Addicted to gambling and reform

25 January 2014 9:00 am

A book about one of the London clubs, published to mark its 250th anniversary, might be regarded as of extremely…