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The Book Club Live: An evening with Max Hastings

  • Thursday 15 May 2025, 7:30pm
  • Shaw Theatre, Euston Road, London
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Spectator Life

An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.

The gobsmacking brilliance of baked Alaska

From the magazine

I have never seen a baked Alaska in the wild. Have you? I knew what they looked like, of course, all meringue cheekbones and technicolor interior, but I haven’t actually come across one. For whatever reason, they seem to be an endangered species – so I took to making them myself. The pudding was invented

Spectator TV

Druin Burch

What’s wrong with national stereotypes?

From Spectator Life

Magazine

This week's magazine

Chambers of horrors

Britain’s most radical lawyers

Ross Clark

The radical barristers who really lay down the law in Britain

The facade of Garden Court Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is reassuringly traditional. The barristers who work there occupy buildings which were once home to the Earl of Sandwich and the Tory prime minister Spencer Perceval. If there were any building in London in which wigs and gowns would seem a natural form of dress,

The radical barristers who really lay down the law in Britain

The facade of Garden Court Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is reassuringly traditional. The barristers who work there occupy buildings which were once home to the Earl of Sandwich and the Tory prime minister Spencer Perceval. If there were any building in London in which wigs and gowns would seem a natural form of dress,

Culture

The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.

Imagine Dua Lipa releasing an album of Victorian parlour ballads

From the magazine

Grade: B+ This is unexpected. A bright young cellist – one of the brightest, in fact – makes his recorded debut with a collection of opera fantasies. In the 19th century, touring virtuosos routinely ransacked hit operas for melodies, then decked them out with every conceivable bit of flummery, dazzlement and top-end-tinsel, the better to

Podcasts

Cartoons

Wilbur

‘‘We should sign this anti-Trump pact.’’

Cartoon

Colin Freeman

What Warfare forgets about Iraq

From Spectator Life