Issue 49; Editorial, 26th July, 2025

As we enjoy a welcome break with some beautiful cooler air after weeks of sweating, with linen shirts clinging to our backs like an over friendly shower curtain, we are back with a new issue of The Fake Intellectual.

The first half of 2025 has been an odd one for all, from politics across the world going into a downward spiral, wars continuing and getting worse elsewhere and heatwaves setting fire to much of Europe, end of world anyone?  Obviously you would expect a website such as this may mention some of the horrid things happening in the world.  However, there are better people out there doing this and I feel many are not qualified to make a statement and should just keep opinions to themselves.  With this in mind we are doing what we always do and write about things that matter on an individual level.  

Take this month as an example of the FI, as I write about eating great food at a Michelin starred restaurant, my tired eyes giving up on me and for the first time, I review the books I have been reading as part of my ‘Current Morning Read’ series.  And finally we got the most English person in England, with a name that screams upper class to write about not travelling like an Englishman when going on holiday, we welcome Piers Little.  Piers contacted me out of the blue wanting to write for the FI after stumbling onto the website when searching for something else, probably more high brow.  The non Instagram, social media plum mouthed apologetic Mr Little is a man who speaks his mind, but very politely, so I’m sure he will be back with some delights and commentary on our lives and the world as he sees it.

If you subscribe to the newsletter you will also be looking at the lovely little article about my general hatred of technology and how I am going backwards, it could be age, but it is also the way it is all going.  Grab a coffee, sit back and have a read and enjoy.

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TWC

Issue 49; I'll Go With Eight

Words by T W Coombs

I am not a gluttonous man, I just like good wine and food and when I can, I do like to indulge, to a respectable level, and dive head first into a quality wine list and menu.

It is not often that you get to experience a true delight, you sometimes need to pick the occasion or it is just because you want a special time without a true reason.  When such an occasion rode in on a full white stallion, we grabbed the reins and went to the Hide and Fox in Hythe, Kent.

Issue 49; Travel More, Less Like An Englishman

Words by Piers Little

Will you just all calm down, it is a holiday, a time to relax, to take a deep breath, to leave the kids in some group with total strangers at a nondescript resort.  All so you can eat a three course breakfast daily and start drinking cocktails the second your bum hits the sunlounger at 10am.  With this in mind, why do people travel like they just escaped a maximum security prison?

Issue 49; The Morning Read Book Review

Words by T W Coombs

In this section I give my thoughts on the books I have been reading over coffee and breakfast in the morning.  This month three books were consumed, “When the Going was Good” by Graydon Carter and two Self Help style books by Mark Manson, “Art of Not Giving a F*ck” and “A Book About Hope”.

Issue 49; The Age of The Reading Glass

Words by T W Coombs

I feel youthful, most of the time, the occasional ache brought on by being in one position for too long, or from an over indulgent gym session.  I rarely feel old.  Not that in the scheme of things I am an old man, I am within my fortieth decade of life on this plain of existence.  However there are signs of a body breaking down.  And it starts with a hobby.