William Sinclair – a picaresque life reviewed
In an attempt to reconstruct the life of William Sinclair, Pissed-off Toff finds himself producing a full-length monograph. Towards the end of last year I received a telephone call from … Keep Reading
Drinkers like me
‘Dry January’ seems a good time to review the drinking habits of an ordinary man who was obliged to accept that he had strayed far inside the danger zone. At … Keep Reading
Et in Arcadia ego
Now that the intrepid Simon Reeve is back on the TV with a new series about the Mediterranean, it seems a good time to dust off the following review of … Keep Reading
The Enigma of Kidson
Pissed-off Toff reviews The Enigma of Kidson by Jamie Blackett. This is a book that I found impossible to put down. I read it, if not in one sitting, then … Keep Reading
The Riot Club
Pissed-off Toff reviews a fairly recent film called The Riot Club, in which more-or-less upper-class undergraduates at Oxford are portrayed as being not only beyond the pale in every way, … Keep Reading