Dave Robson 
Anyone who thinks that investigative reporting is dead has never read Peter Lance. Lance, no doubt aided by graduate degrees in both journalism and law, was the first mainstream journalist to argue that Ramzi Yousef was a chief architect of both World Trade Centre attacks, documented the many intelligence failures … Read More
The dust jacket of Carnivore, a memoir by Sargent Dillard Johnson with assistance from journalist James Tarr, bills Johnson as “on of the deadliest soldier of all time” and alludes to an astonishing kill count of 2,700. Johnson doesn’t quite claim that number pages of his book, but he does … Read More
Once upon a time—say, the late nineties—its was taken for granted that men spent all their time thinking about sex and women did not, presumably filling this tremendous gap in their schedules with wedding planning and thinking of increasingly creative ways turn down sex with their boyfriends. The stereotypical man … Read More
Canadian whisky used to enormously popular. Back in the sixties, it was considered something sophisticated. Sadly, those days are past. In fact, Jim Murray of the annual Whisky Bible fame calls Canada the “forgotten whisky empire”, and he’s not wrong. Single malt Scotch is the reigning king of the whisky … Read More
I did three things last Saturday. Firstly, I visited my tailor, where I selected fabric and was measured for a new pair of bespoke pants. Then, I met up with my local butcher, where I picked up a specially ordered cut of dry-aged skirt steak. His assistant informed me that … Read More
