Jonathan Meades

‘If every writer who disliked what other contributors wrote decided to withdraw their work, there would be no papers, no magazines, perhaps no telly’

Neo-barbouzes and bodyguard conspiracies

It will be a dark day for parliament when there is nothing left to proscribe, nothing that nodding dullards can deem “totally unacceptable”.  

Michael Gove’s plan to ban foie gras is an essentially frivolous self-advertisement

Sir Les Patterson or Poundbury, Roy Wood or Richard Rogers, dodgy clubs or lusty yeomen?