Marmite – like that other little black-jar job…– Peter York
Marmite – like that other little black-jar job, Bovril – is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world
Marmite – like that other little black-jar job, Bovril – is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world
Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was ‘as thick
The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren’t white, off-white, milk chocolate,
It’s just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am – no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision,
When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: ‘Who is doing it?’ Trends break out because they’re based on real
People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone’s immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been
Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy.
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house – and part of the required kit ever afterwards.
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