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How Eccentric is Downing Street?

Long before Downing Street acquired its latest occupant, Britain had entrusted its fortunes to an extraordinary procession of tree-fellers, tricyclists, theologians, dandies,…

The Eccentric Charigs

Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums. The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under the club clock,…

The Fabulous Czainskis

He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to rescue a…

The Six Faces of Lucy Freud

She spent a year at art school under her married name, saying nothing. Then she turned out the lights.

Dare To Be Eccentric?

In defence of originality in an age of conformity