London - a place where mammon meets government, art meets youth, and the engine of modern day Britain thrives on reclaimed social wasteland - a City now governed by an exuberant, ebullient and eternally eccentic Etonian… the template of future direct rule from Notting Hill and the resurgent Tories who, without revealing any [...]
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I begin this Whitsun Bank Holiday with a reading suitable for a funeral….
Stop all the papers, cut off the net,
Prevent the backbenchers from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pundits and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the Tories come.
[With many apologies to W H Auden]
I amused myself with a glass of [...]
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Nantwich & Crewe has come and gone. It is a Bank holiday in Britain, coupled to a parliamentary recess. There is time for the men in suits to slip quietly, silently, like deadly clostridium difficile, into Downing St. to have a quiet word. The Sunday newspapers have yet to pronounce their verdicts. [...]
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Audio Version: West London Man (7) - Pre-dinner
Saturday evening 7.00 pm: George and Caroline are having a glass of wine and a dance in the drawing room of their graciously appointed West London home. They are going to a black tie supper party with West London friends. They have cracked open a [...]
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