Seated on a banquette in a corner of the Savoy Hotel’s iconic American Bar, sipping one of Priscilla’s Buck Fizzes, the celebrated ghosts of the hotel’s legendary past swirl around. The 2022 Savoy is a sleek modern, beautifully run hotel…
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Gone London
The London of Dickens, the London of countless Masterpiece Theatre portrayals, the black and white London of the British movies of my youth—in other words the traditional London that tourists flock here to experience, that London is fast disappearing. At…
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London Calling
The Greeks are finished (Eurogeddon!), the Chinese are collapsing, a strike has closed the London underground for the first time in thirteen years, everyone is shocked—shocked!—that a Conservative government would slash welfare benefits in its latest budget and, sadly, it…
Fall In Love, Talk To Dead People, Write A Great Novel
All Lionel Goldstein had to do to write a great novel was fall in love for a lifetime and talk to a couple of dead people. The conversation with the dead took place in 1968. The younger brother of his best friend had…
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Ron Base Writes 