Anarchy at the Athenaeum! The 200-year-old Pall Mall club has been hit by an unlikely culture war. On one side, traditionalists who accuse modernisers of 'clamorous priggery'. On the other, the right-on committee accusing opponents of bigotry
The villain of the piece, in Richard Davenport-Hines' eyes, is not so much the club chairman, the admittedly right-on Dame Ann Limb, but her colleagues on the ruling committee.
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