Introducing the London Issue: Britain's school for scoundrels; Will Self's walking tour; and our list of young stars.
|  | | November 11, 2023 | Issue N⁰ 226 | | | | You are not currently a paid member and have limited access to AIR MAIL. Subscribe today. | | Good Morning! | It's the weekend, and we have
a special issue devoted to London | Here's Just Some of
What We Have in This Issue
| | London's brightest young minds can be found in our portfolio. From poets and architects to D.J.'s and chefs, we've collected the most exciting representatives of each field for you to discover | | | Eton College's alumni saturate the political and financial classes, and not always for the better. James Fox, an Old Etonian himself, suggests that Great Britain's current parlous state can be traced back to the school's vicious, uncaring environment | | | Irreducibly grimy and raucous, Camden has long been London's go-to neighborhood for music, writes Dorian Lynskey. It's where U2 opened for Talking Heads, where Blur and Oasis battled for Brit-pop supremacy, and where Amy Winehouse presided before, and even after, her death | | | There is no word that can cause more offense to more people than the c-word. At least that's the case in the U.S. In Great Britain, the word is used quite differently, Hannah Betts explains, as something like a call to action and term of endearment | | | Kitted out like a Roman brothel with paintings of orgies, marble busts, and grandiloquent Damien Hirst sculptures, the restaurant Bacchanalia exists purely for social media, writes Hilary Rose, and is the opposite of nourishing | | | The River Cafe went from being a restaurant to being an unstoppable cultural force, declares Mark Rozzo. Under the guidance of Ruthie Rogers, it launched the careers of countless big-name chefs, from Jamie Oliver and April Bloomfield to Tomos Parry and Jess Shadbolt | | | When Biba opened its first store, in 1964, it was unlike anything else at the time—it had D.J.'s, communal changing rooms, and cheap, fast fashions, and attracted everyone from the girl-next-door typist to the Rolling Stones, Marcello Mastroianni, and Tina Turner | | | Keep your eyes open and you'll see them—the new tribes of London. There's the Camberwell Authentocrat desperate to give you ethnic-restaurant recommendations, and there's the Barbican Bore eager to bother you senseless about brutalist buildings. Grab our handy guide and see how many you can find! | | | For decades, Nicky Haslam has been London's most beloved arbiter of things that are common. Now his dislikes can be yours, too, as he launches his annual tea towel, emblazoned with a long list of everything he finds sub-par | | | In celebration of the Beatles' newly released single, "Now and Then," dive back into the Swinging 60s with our British kit and caboodle | | | | | | |
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