The best bars tend to be built around a simple premise. When I think of my favourites, they offer something unique that sticks in the mind: the miniature-looking Duke of Edinburgh in Brixton, with its ...
Just short of five years ago, my wife and I went to Rome to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our getting married there. We were unaware of the earliest reports of a mysterious new virus appearing in ...
As I’ve mentioned more than once in recent months, I set myself the task for 2024 of reading and then writing about 25 pieces of London fiction I hadn’t read before. As the list below shows, I have ...