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Oct 18, 2024 | 
lotuseaters.com | Connor Tomlinson |Harry Shukman |Hannah Wilkinson
In this week’s episode of Tomlinson Talks, Connor discusses how HOPE Not Hate may have broken the law, following their new investigation with Channel 4 and The Guardian, “Undercover: Exposing the Far Right”. He examines the tactics used by HOPE Not Hate operatives during this documentary, and brings to light new evidence concerning allegations that they are connected to the British government and intelligence services.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
mirror.co.uk | Harry Shukman
Last summer, I was sitting in the backyard of a suburban house surrounded by barbed wire fences and locked gates with a group of people. We were all sitting very close on garden chairs. The leader of the Far Right party Britain First, Paul Golding, was just staring at this point on my chest. I was wearing a hidden camera, and he was looking right where the camera was. I knew I was very far from being safe. This was locked door inside locked door. There was nowhere to run to.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
thegentlemansjournal.com | Harry Shukman
There are few limits in the world of sports memorabilia — almost everything can be collectable — which is probably what makes hardcore collectors a little strange. What sort of person thinks that Andre Agassi’s wig, for instance, is a worthwhile investment? The American tennis player’s spectacular 1980s toupee mullet sold for thousands of dollars to Robert Earl, the Planet Hollywood restaurant tycoon.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
thegentlemansjournal.com | Harry Shukman
Not so long ago, home brewing was the preserve of two demographics, and two demographics only. The first: teenage boys too young to purchase alcohol, but old enough to want it. The second: bearded heavy metal fans on familiar terms with the staff at their local Games Workshop. The end product made by both groups would be nobody else’s idea of a refreshing pint, and the author can speak from unhappy experience.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
thegentlemansjournal.com | Harry Shukman
“Empires,” says the Canadian professor Gad Saad, “implode from within due to their own excesses”. So it went with the fall of Rome, and so it could with the mighty empire of Salt Bae, the Turkish meat despot who rules over a landmass so large the sun never sets on it.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
thegentlemansjournal.com | Harry Shukman
You would be forgiven for thinking that after Fyre Fest — the luxury music event that has since become a byword for “shitshow” — that Billy McFarland would have put his festival organising days behind him. But apparently part-way through his prison sentence for fraud, when the 31-year-old McFarland was in solitary confinement, he came to the conclusion that once was not enough.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
thegentlemansjournal.com | Harry Shukman
“A sunny place for shady people” is how William Somerset Maugham famously described the French Riviera. A playground for rich villains to slurp bouillabaisse and chug champagne and share tips on circumventing arms-trade embargoes. Glitzy though it may be, the Riviera has always had a nasty edge: a scummy layer of chewing gum and saliva beneath the pressed white linen tablecloths.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
thegentlemansjournal.com | Harry Shukman
So who are these people in real life and what are they like? If you have a problem, if no one else can help, maybe you can hire Amber Melville-Brown. She is partner and global head of media law at the New York office of Withers, with a particular focus on reputation management. Melville-Brown has a supreme talent for unfucking disasters, and like the best of her peers, an Olympic tolerance for cortisol. “I operate in the concrete jungle,” she says.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
thegentlemansjournal.com | Harry Shukman
If you go down to the woods today, you’d better go in disguise. That’s because the dressing up themes for this year’s Wilderness Festival are more imaginative than ever. Day one: “Like Rabbits”, day two: “Grandma’s Wallpaper”, day three: “OUT Outrageous: What would you wear for the last night on earth?” The boutique festival is back for its 12th year, and promises to be boujier than ever.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
thegentlemansjournal.com | Harry Shukman
Among the weirder and perhaps least sinister of the historic London clubs (at least compared to the Carlton, which has an area called “Cads’ Corner” where members can peer up the skirts of female guests climbing the staircase) is an institution called the Eccentric Club. Founded in 1781, it is one of the oldest surviving societies in London, and occupies a strange space in clubland history among the port-swilling cigar chompers of Pall Mall.
