Darwin, Dickens and Dawkins Walk into a Bar…

A Few Good Drinks, a Few Great Minds, Perhaps One Great Thought.

Last week, I had the privilege of ordering a drink at the bar of a grand old Club in Mayfair, the kind of place where the heavy drapery of old empire and class keeps the raucous post-global London of today far out-of-sight. But in here, not far out of mind.

It turns out that in this place, great minds have been causing trouble and shaking things up for much of the outside world for several centuries, a tradition you are reminded of as soon as you walk into the bar…