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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.
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
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
The burning of Notre Dame felt like a world-historical moment. It was the scene that fiction could not invent. A …
Continue reading "Notre Dame fire could inspire a moment of French national rebirth"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 22 March 2019
In Graham Greene’s 1935 short story, A Little Place Off The Edgware Road, a man – Craven – stalks the …
Continue reading "A hymn to Bayswater"
By Toby Guise
Friday, 20 July 2018
Contemplative travel may not be an obvious component of the modern world. Yet from Santiago de Compostella to the byways …
Continue reading "The ancient discipline of pilgrimage reimagined in the modern day"
By Toby Guise
