“It begins to feel that these two things are not working together. The column has just been rammed into the square.”
Read More“as though today’s world didn’t exist”
Read More“the epitome of remaining elegant and refined while causing chaos”
Read More“those two moments were like hearing the worst possible news in the doctor’s consulting room”
Read More“the monster was out of its cage”
Read More“‘pish, a woman could piss it out’…it was, of course, the greatest understatement in London’s history, the biggest London misjudgement ever”
Read More“It was a street plan that might have been designed to aid and abet a catastrophic conflagration.”
Read More“she was gap-toothed, she was bawdy, she was a tremendous character. She was cremated on a beach in Bali.”
Read More“the attendant kept goldfish in the glass-fronted cisterns that would, when the chain was pulled to flush the loo, slowly sink to the bottom of the cistern before rising again as the water flowed in to refill the cistern”
Read More“when you’re dealing with the House of Hanover you’re dealing with a gene pool that only has a shallow end”
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