Advertisement
Here is a recap of how the Club works:1. We meet every six weeks or so in or near the National Theatre.
2. We vote in advance and pick two articles from a short list to read before we meet. Usually one relates to politics/current affairs and the other to history, culture, sport, business or science.
3. We talk about each one for around half an hour and the beauty of Article Club is that we can think more deeply about the broader themes of a topic, and how well the article gets to grips with them.
4. We each give a score out of 10 for the articles that have been discussed.
5. We set the date for the next Article Club and sometimes adjourn to the pub.
The point of Article Club is to challenge ourselves to read a diverse range of articles, share them with like-minded people and deal with our anxiety that we aren't reading books.
Article Club was set up by Ross Bailey in 2015 who did a fantastic job at running it. Ross was followed by the equally fantastic Claire Ferraro and I (Alistair Baker) have been in the chair for the past eight years.
OUR NEXT MEETUP: ARTICLE CLUB #80
Thursday 8th October 2026 - 7:30pm to around 9:15pm. We sit on the soft round seats in the Lyttelton Theatre bar on the first floor.
We're democratic - you get to vote for the articles that we read and discuss. I will create a google voting form well before the event so you can read the candidate articles and vote. If you are impressed by an article then by all means post it on here or send to me for consideration.
Happy reading.
Alistair
Advertisement
Event venue
National Theatre, Slice, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Tickets
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.
Discover more events by tag
Meetups in LondonEducation in LondonBooks in LondonLiterary-art in LondonJournalism in LondonArt in LondonTheatre in LondonSports in LondonContests in LondonScience-fair in London