Tat London Journal

At Tat, we like to keep a few small pleasures on the horizon — a perfectly mixed martini, a meander through a museum, or, more often than not, a night away. And just because the summer holidays have had their swansong doesn’t mean the chance for escape has vanished.

I’m trawling Rightmove, as usual. I have to say that Nottinghamshire isn’t currently serving up the most inspiring housing stock in my price range. Cities built in the Industrial Revolution and battered by WW2 bombs or unsightly ring roads don’t tend to have an abundance of bucolic charm. I divert my search to Herefordshire, or Suffolk, or the Highlands and Islands. I over-dramatically lament. But as a Midlander born and bred I am allowed to being impishly mean, because hidde

A Cabinet of Curiosities: Britain’s Strangest Museums, September 2025 Glandford Shell Museum When much of the Western world seems intent on homogenising our wardrobes, our menus and our high streets, we feel compelled to shine a light on the beauty of the odd and the eccentric. And eccentricity, after all, is something Britain does rather well. We are a curious little island, forever carting back curiosities from abroad and insisting they’re part of the national story. For no