If we organise a monthly lads poker night or a female book group, are we as guilty of being exclusionary as the Garrick Club? Maybe we all need to mix up our social circles more, suggests Oliver Keens – or at least acknowledge when they’re not mixed at all

If we organise a monthly lads poker night or a female book group, are we as guilty of being exclusionary as the Garrick Club? Maybe we all need to mix up our social circles more, suggests Oliver Keens – or at least acknowledge when they’re not mixed at all

The sight of throngs of people coming together in public to dance or freeze or do something silly was once ubiquitous, if always soundtracked by snide remarks about their pointlessness. But Oliver Keens is eager for their return, particularly because he blames the former PM for sounding their death knell