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Society

The English and Their Clubs

BY SEAN WALSH If you are one of those people who still puzzle over the identity of Jack the Ripper*, then the Whitechapel Society might be right up your narrow, cobbled, and pitch-black street. Founded some thirty years ago, its membership includes former and serving police officers, academics, tour guides, psychologists, psychics, lawyers and miscellaneous representatives of all trades and none. It meets every other … Continue reading The English and Their Clubs

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Civilisation

In the Company of Gentlemen

BY STEPHEN PAX LEONARD The sky was tawny; the late afternoon frosty and brittle. The fields crunched as the shooting party of Byronic heroes walked across the spines of the hills enjoying some light-hearted repartee. Percy cum-Banter had spent the day on a shoot on the Scottish borders. Not one of those ghastly commercial shoots with appalling practices of burying birds at the end of … Continue reading In the Company of Gentlemen

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