I only drank three nights a week, but that was enough to do it. I first stopped drinking five years ago. I don’t drink alcohol because I can’t. Well, I can, but if I do, an infinite mass of possibilities unravels in front of me, only I do not get to choose my destiny. I drank because I was anxious. I drank to experience absolutely everything all at once, to create an exciting, phantasmagorical world on top of reality that was ultimately destructive and selfish. In this pursuit, bad things would inevitably happen, often in blackout, operating quite proficiently in an unconscious sleepwalk.

From one of the year’s most anticipated series, House Of Guinness to the slovenly security service agents of Slough House in Slow Horses, via the new album release from the New York band Geese, we pick the new films, TV shows and music you won’t want to miss right now – and spotlight the men who make them.

The busiest time of the year is undoubtedly the most fun, with countless soirees to attend and endless outfits to swish around in. However, the social swing of December can, on occasion, become something of a chore. So how do you perfect the art of party attending? Here, the world’s most seasoned event givers and goers garnish us with their infallible tips for being the most sparkling guest at any celebration – and the most charismatic man in any room.

Watching Graeme Black and his Staffordshire bull terrier amble from the front door of Wood End, his Grade II-listed Georgian house, with its far-reaching views over the Yorkshire Dales and a serene-looking Semerwater below, along through a grassy meadow towards the exquisite Thorns Gallery that Black and his partner, the designer Jonathan Reed, have cleverly created from an old cowshed, you would imagine the artist was born and raised here.

I only drank three nights a week, but that was enough to do it. I first stopped drinking five years ago. I don’t drink alcohol because I can’t. Well, I can, but if I do, an infinite mass of possibilities unravels in front of me, only I do not get to choose my destiny. I drank because I was anxious. I drank to experience absolutely everything all at once, to create an exciting, phantasmagorical world on top of reality that was ultimately destructive and selfish. In this pursuit, bad things would inevitably happen, often in blackout, operating quite proficiently in an unconscious sleepwalk.

From one of the year’s most anticipated series, House Of Guinness to the slovenly security service agents of Slough House in Slow Horses, via the new album release from the New York band Geese, we pick the new films, TV shows and music you won’t want to miss right now – and spotlight the men who make them.