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There’s more than a whiff of swing in the air–and on the airwaves. Will Hosie explores the resurrection of one of music’s most gentlemanly genres

There was a definite nip in the air as I walked through the iconic streets of Westminster to Great Scotland Yard Hotel, an imposing building within just a few minutes’ walk from Embankment and Charing

LONDON HAS MORE MEMBERS’ CLUBS THAN ANY OTHER CITY. WHAT’S MORE SURPRISING IS THAT FAR FROM BEING RELICS OF THE PAST, A REVIVAL IS UNDERWAY, DISCOVERS ANNE CUTHBERTSON

From prawn cocktail and Arctic roll to starched tablecloths and ‘nicotine cream’ on the walls, it’s out with the new and in with the old in the restaurant world, says David Ellis

SOCIALISING HAS EVOLVED BEYOND THE PUB AND, IN ITS PLACE, THERE’S A THIRST FOR SOMETHING NEW, ROOTED IN A DESIRE FOR COMMUNITY THAT’S STRONGER THAN EVER. HATTIE CRISELL SIGNS UP TO THE MOVEMENT

YOU COULD THROW a dart at a calendar blindfold and hit a significant date for the Ace Cafe, 1950s bastion of café racers, prominent landmark on London’s hardly picturesque North Circular, and, under t