Achtung! It is time the capital dragged its appalled gaze from the chaos on Mein Campus in the US to the crisis in London’s Clubland. For an historic vote in the Garrick Club, which could roll the pitch for the full admission of women after a mere 200 years of blissful uninterrupted chapdom, is almost upon us.
On Tuesday, following some jiggery-pokery and elastic re-definition of what “he” means in law (it can also mean “she”, it turns out) a mere majority vote will be needed to determine the august club’s possibly co-ed future.
