Matthew Wilcox

Matthew Wilcox is a freelance journalist, editor, and travel writer based in Wiltshire. A former author of the DK Eyewitness guides to Japan and Tokyo, he writes about art, wine, food, and wooden boats. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, Apollo, and The Art Newspaper

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Matthew Wilcox

The Cotswolds is a Potemkin England

Have you heard the one where the vice president of the United States and a lesbian former talk show host walk into a farm shop in Gloucestershire? No, it’s not the set-up to a joke – it’s just another Tuesday in the Cotswolds in 2025. The Cotswolds still looks like England – hedgerows, pubs selling Sunday roasts