1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (734+ words) The Spectator Australia Is coffee-drinking the new secular religion? In a whimsical discussion of our relationship with the beverage, Julian Baggini proposes "Coffeeism" as a philosophy for everyday life Mitchell Beazley, pp. 176, 14. 99 A lot of books, obviously depending on what…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (624+ words) It was when I was staying recently with the Frums in D. C. that, for a dizzying moment, I thought my life-long quest had ended. Nasa can fly us a quarter of a million miles to circumnavigate the moon but nobody has…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (256+ words) The caf" is a marvellous construct, as the arcade is. It exists so that spoilt Regency women, the Chelsea hags of then, could shop without walking in horseshit. I know how they feel. It isn't lunch in the common sense…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (366+ words) People who drink coffee and tea are less likely to suffer dementia, according to a large study published this week. The research is from Harvard and appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), one of my profession's…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (525+ words) The Spectator Australia Make mine a Moka pot It's strange the things that can trigger amity or affection. At the beginning of the capsule/pod coffee-maker craze, when George Clooney, with his come-to-bed eyes, was seducing the world with Nespresso…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (230+ words) You will be familiar with the 1930s line, "Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun." Whenever I hear the word culture I reach for the nearest restaurant. Culture makes me hungry and there is no better place…...