The Garrick Club needs women. But try telling that to the members with the locker-room bants

The Garrick Club in London. ‘The antis will try to filibuster our resolution on Tuesday with wrecking amendments.’ Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

Here’s a surprise: the Garrick Club is a really lovely place.

It’s full of lively and fascinating people. The staff are superb, the food is great, the wine list divine. The library is to die for (or in), we have the finest theatrical portraiture in the world, sumptuous sitting rooms and chic bedrooms a wallet’s throw from the Royal Opera House.