london Archives - Martini Mandate

The Chelsea Flower Show, Brexit, and Women Leaders

Martinista2019-05-29T22:21:50+00:00May 29th, 2019|

My nostrils twitched as I entered the Chelsea Flower Show. The pollen count was overwhelming. The old chap next to me s ...

Martinista2019-05-29T23:01:22+00:00May 14th, 2019|

I was passing through Oxford Circus when I found the road blocked by protesters from Extinction Rebellion; environmental ...

Martinista2018-03-29T14:41:38+00:00March 4th, 2018|

When you grow up in a cold grey place and have to endure six months without sunshine, it is difficult to resist the temp ...

Martinista2017-10-29T23:32:15+00:00October 29th, 2017|

Is this the best burger in London? The meat is organic from grass fed cows, butchered by virgins on a full moon. The f ...

Martinista2017-11-08T10:10:53+00:00October 29th, 2017|

The bright young thing tripping happily down an aisle in the Brixton Market can’t see the dishevelled man waiting in amb ...

Martinista2017-09-15T21:02:22+00:00September 15th, 2017|

Yashin Ocean House is a Japanese gem tucked away in an unprepossessing corner of the Old Brompton Road. The decor is st ...

Martinista2017-07-10T23:19:02+00:00July 1st, 2017|

I recently experienced a curry fuelled, Alice in Wonderland afternoon, with a roomful of splendid eccentrics who wish to ...

Martinista2017-06-12T19:14:04+00:00June 12th, 2017|

I don't know what to make of the results of the British elections. The chap who lost is considered to have won (the Brit ...

Martinista2017-04-13T17:37:05+00:00April 13th, 2017|

The British are an island people with strange habits. One of them is to picnic inside the family car. A British family w ...

Martinista2017-04-12T12:17:36+00:00June 20th, 2016|

Reasons to remain in Europe In a few days the people of the United Kingdom will vote in a referendum to determine whet ...

Martinista2017-04-12T12:17:37+00:00September 30th, 2015|

The British Prime Minister is alleged to have stuck his privates into the mouth of a (mercifully dead) pig. David ...

Martinista2017-04-12T12:18:12+00:00July 5th, 2014|

Every festival needs cigarette girls It's officially the summer which means festival season is upon us. This is an oc ...