Archive - The Metropolitan

The Beiderbecke Affair (1985)

What I don’t understand is this…

16 hrs ago •

June 2025

May 2025

Metropolitan Mixtape: May 2025

Before the Spotify playlist, there was the mixtape: a homemade selection of hand-picked songs.

May 31 •

That’s just, like, your opinion, man

A question of taste

May 24 •

Flight 714 to Sydney

Hergé (The Adventures of Tintin, Casterman, 1968)

May 17 •

A journey through time

Or, why it pays to be early to meetings

May 15 •

Back in the days when I used to work for Mumsnet, there was a specific tension that often made things extremely tricky.

May 10 •

Down By Law (1986)

It’s a sad and beautiful world

May 3 •

April 2025

Metropolitan Mixtape: April 2025

Alternative visions

Apr 26 •

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