One of my friends, a journalist for one the largest-circulation newspapers in the U.K., is not allowed to write about bubble bath. Her editor has declared it “too out of touch” in this moment, when the cost-of-living crisis has been disastrous for many Britons. “There are two different worlds,” she explained. “And we speak to both of them.”
There’s no such conversation happening in the corner of Whitehall where Raffles London at the O.W.O. is finally welcoming the public. Well, not quite the public public. Its Web site describes it as an “Epic Stage for Modern Tastemakers.”
