The last time I was in Mumbai it was still called Bombay. I stayed at the Taj Hotel, which is close to the Gateway to India. It’s easy to feel like an extra in a Bollywood film in such surroundings. On leaving the hotel in the morning I would hail a taxi for the short […]
The No Offence Intended Gambit
And so 2016 has arrived. On time, too, and with no announced rise in fares. While the going is good, therefore, Happy New Year. The publication of government papers from 1985 under the thirty year rule saw Oliver Letwin reveal himself in a memo for Thatcher’s policy unit as a racist and a snob. The […]