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New York is a people pleaser’s hell

manners

Life

New York is a people pleaser’s hell

The city is a psychological assault course, an emotional minefield, for people like me who are chronically apologetic

Josie Cox

The predictable rise of rowdy British theater crowds

We are encouraged to respond very differently — often in the same places — to different types of cultural presentation

Gareth Roberts

You, too, can ban James Corden from your restaurant

The British TV host was declared Balthazar’s ‘most abusive customer’

Cockburn

Why we should study literature, not science

When I was a child, manners were as important as morals — in fact they mattered more

Taki

Manners maketh America

It’s in everyone’s interest to resist rudeness

Harry Mount

March 16, 2020
Will the handshake outlast coronavirus?
The handshake strikes the perfect balance: personal and cordial, while neither too formal nor too relaxed
Hunter DuBose
Home
October 26, 2019
How Emily Post taught the elite to greet
Happy birthday to the original mannered miss
Alexandra Hudson
Media
October 24, 2018
#MeToo and the death of American manners
It’s come as a rude surprise that polite behaviour seems to have disappeared wholesale from society
John R. MacArthur
Home
October 17, 2018
The Farm Stand Test
Seasonal vegetables are a secret weapon in the fight against crime
Joseph Bottum
Home
September 4, 2018
In praise of Midwestern manners
Demonising won’t help the Dems in South Dakota
Joseph Bottum
Book Review
June 21, 2018
The short step from good manners to lofty imperialism
In a world increasingly shaped by encounters with other cultures, the English started to form theories in which their own evolved behaviour resembled the pinnacle of possible civilisation.
Philip Hensher

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