Full details of this year’s saunter sans purpose, determined by the same principles of flannerie as ever, but with a new starting point. All photos by Soulstealer Photography. The 2026 Grand Flaneur Walk takes place on Sunday 17th May. This will be the sixth incarnation of The Chap’s saunter sans purpose during the Summer (last year… … Keep Reading
Ten years since the passing of the Thin White Duke, Alexander Larman reflects on the lost years of David Bowie’s life and career. Given how vital it was to his artistic development in the 1970s, there is something oddly fitting in the fact that David Bowie’s final concert proved to be in Germany, in the… … Keep Reading
The Chap makes a smooth transition from gentlemen’s periodical to members’ club. When The Chap magazine ceased publication in 2025, we realised that what we had built was so much more than a gentlemen’s periodical. Having hosted a multitude of social events, musical gatherings and public protests against the forces of blandification, we saw that… … Keep Reading
This month’s round-up of photographs sent in by readers for the ultimate sartorial assessment. Guy Walters “The other day, quite unwittingly,” writes Guy Walters, “I found myself paying homage to the excellent Lord Fairhaven, as featured in your pages in September.” Sir, you are presumably referring to a feature on our web site only viewable… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple takes a liquid journey around the world to see whether single malt whisky can be trusted from anywhere except Scotland. To some readers (and they may be right) is is already blasphemous even to suggest that whisky can come from anywhere except Scotland. But when one discovers that whisky is also made in… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple assesses a new Irish Whiskey with rather ghoulish credentials. The word ‘sexton’ derives from the Mediaeval Latin word sacristanus – ‘custodian of sacred objects’. A sexton is ‘a person who looks after a church and churchyard, typically acting as bell-ringer and gravedigger’. The gravedigger in Hamlet calls himself a sexton, for example. The typical… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple nosedives into rums that don’t come from where they used to come from, because they are either made or refined right here on these craggy shores. Over the last decade or so, rum has been slowly shaking off its old reputation as something to swill in discotheques mixed with Coca-Cola. But only recently… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple watched Robert Eggers’ new adaptation of the vampire classic and missed the camp and humour of all previous versions. Robert Eggers long-awaited version of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, lavishly funded by Universal Pictures, lacks all the essential ingredients that have made many previous vampire movies into masterpieces. The plot, characters and cast – with…
Gustav Temple treads in Bogie’s footsteps to be fitted with a Borsalino Fedora. “When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses.”Humphrey Bogart’s line from Key Largo (1948) rang in my head as I mounted the steps to Burlington Arcade in London. I may have been a long…
Gustav Temple reviews the new documentary about the life of Humphrey Bogart. “I like people, yachts, chess, politics, a good drink, a good wife, nice kids. I had those.”Humphrey Bogart Hollywood’s ultimate man’s man, and his troubled relationship with alcohol and history of treating his many wives roughly, may not seem the ideal subject for…
Gustav Temple provides festive concoctions to get one through the holiday period. People often refer to Christmas as a ‘boozy’ or ‘over-indulgent’ period, then those same people, come the first of January, go all holly-and-ivier-than-thou, self-righteously placing a palm over their wine glass when offered a top up. What they don’t comprehend is that Christmas…