“the basic product is not the rooms, the food or drink, it is the service”
Read More“He was lantern-jawed. Five o’clock shadowed. Double-chinned. Broad-shouldered. Deep-voiced. Hirsute hands”
Read More“thanks to the restoration we’re seeing things we couldn’t see before”
Read More“the desolation around St Paul’s reminded many people of Ypres in the heart of London”
Read More“the hard part’s over; now comes the easy part – raising the money”
Read More“When the British government gave it a go in 1752, they faced riots.”
Read More“6-feet tall, pouting and heavily made-up, the 13-year-old…”
Read More“what inexhaustible food for speculation the streets of London afford”
Read More“the English are branded on the tongue”
Read More“the only way to bombproof a city is to abandon it”
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