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Toby Guise is a London-based writer specialising in political culture. He also writes comment for The American Conservative, Taki's Mag, and Tablet Magazine; and arts for the FT, The Spectator and others. His novel The Gold Sands is available on Amazon.
Friday, 13 September 2019
We live in a society dominated by healthism. Yet this modern puritanism suffers from a paradox: the more unrealistic the …
Continue reading "Lost Classic – The Lost Weekend"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 6 September 2019
What does Nigel Farage read? Like a true populist, he is wary of citing political influences which may later prove …
Continue reading "Lost Classic: Henry Root, model for Nigel Farage"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 23 August 2019
The wedding of Harry and Meghan was supposed to hold a mirror up to a modern world in which anyone …
Continue reading "The wokeing of the Windsors is a #MeToo moment for normal people"
By Toby Guise
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Next time you are out on your bicycle and a Lycra-wearing Superman pulls up next to you at the lights, …
Continue reading "Gamesmanship: Boris is using the School for Scoundrels playbook"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 7 June 2019
The Serpentine Swimming Club – which meets every morning of the year in Hyde Park – epitomises a certain sort …
Continue reading "A certain sort of Englishness – the Serpentine Swimming Club"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 31 May 2019
If you are going to Italy this summer – even for the tenth time – you need a copy of …
Continue reading "Lost Classic: The Italians, by Luigi Barzini"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 17 May 2019
Thriller writers are a competitive breed. Their task is too difficult willingly to acknowledge a debt to another – except …
Continue reading "Lost Classic: The Light of Day, by Eric Ambler"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 3 May 2019
Simon Raven was a novelist to whom memorable quotes stuck more readily than riches or renown. He famously had “the …
Continue reading "Lost Classic – Simon Raven"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 19 April 2019
The inscrutable facade of the old American Embassy on Grosvenor Square is finally crumbling. For 70 years its aquiline presence …
Continue reading "A meditation on Mayfair"
By Toby Guise
