Q. My 16-year-old son, who has recently had his first experiences of Clubland, has observed to me, his mother, that men’s table manners degenerate inside men-only clubs. Is this true?
— A.D.M., London SW1
A. Allegedly so. Men seem hard-wired to let standards slip when the civilising influence of women is absent.
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