sdsdsdsdsdMonth: December 2015

WEDDING TAILS: Ushers to Ushers

Anyone who tries to convince you there is no realpolitik to choosing your groomsmen is not to be trusted. Having spent six weekends

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Saladin

Saladin, Crusades, The Rake

The medieval era, more so than perhaps any other, is an age of villains; of men using and abusing positions of extraordinary

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Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride London

The Rake & our sister magazine, Revolution took part in this years Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride London – BMW scrambler paired with a bowtie, anyone?

EXCESS YOURSELF

As anyone who doesn’t live in an oilskin tent in the Arctic tundra will be aware that, in September earlier this year,

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Justin De Villeneuve

There’s little as rakish as self-invention, and in that particular field, Justin de Villeneuve might well be regarded as a master. Born in London’s

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Gary Cooper

In 1946, when Irving Berlin revised the lyrics to his 1929 song ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’ to include these memorable lines, Gary

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