
Original Spirits: The Eccentric Club and the Soho Film Awards
The 2026 Soho Film Awards have named their winners, and on Friday 16 October the festival opens at The Savile…

The 2026 Soho Film Awards have named their winners, and on Friday 16 October the festival opens at The Savile…

After twenty years in magazines, he fell into conversation outside a party, hatched a pretend speakeasy, and gave it six…

From Victorian porter heated with a red-hot poker to a cocktail garnished with a mummified human toe , thirteen drinks…

He gave up a place at art college to win a £50 bet with his father, which led him to…

A Soho pop-up proposes a novel monetary system — your worst grievance, redeemed at the counter for a cocktail. A…

He asked his despairing games master whether he might try fencing, scrawled spy stories in a stained-glass library, and grew…

On the drifting meaning of a single word - why the late Lord Bath spent a lifetime declining it, how…

There was a grand piano in the shed. There was a childhood split between Beaconsfield and Beverly Hills, a foxtrot…

In 1986, a computer technician from Port Talbot climbed into a bath of baked beans and stayed there for a…

We have shortlisted five contenders for London's most eccentric borough — and then decided to let you be the judge.…

Once dismissed as a Victorian curiosity, penny farthing racing has become a fiercely competitive international sport, with new records falling…

Before the banjolele there was an indie dance band, a dandy punk group that sang about sherry and ultra-violence, a…

A boy who watched beetles cross the grass rather than climb the trees grew into a poet, cartoonist, songwriter and…

Private members' clubs were far more than dining rooms and drawing rooms during the Second World War. They became recruiting…

In this short reflective memoir, Colin (as Sid) discovers the value of solitude, long walks and quiet observation, revealing how…