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Confessions of a bar-stool athlete

Brief letters: Barry Glendenning’s half marathon | The Premier Inn Milton Keynes | Bodø | The Beckham family feud | ‘The North’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23

Sex, drugs and scandal: The Groucho Club's most hedonistic moments

As the celebrity haunt faces a licence review, Claudia Cockerell looks at the Groucho’s history as a haven for drug-fuelled evenings of debauchery

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2024

‘Spend up, drink up, eff off!’ My 12-hour Babylonian crawl in search of old Soho’s louche magic

It was a bohemian enclave of drinking dens, dodgy bookies and after-dark decadence. As a famous book about the London quarter’s bygone charms reappears, our writer downs a breakfast negroni and sees if they can still be found

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2024

Jeffrey Bernard returns to The Coach and Horses, Soho (with a trigger warning)

Robert Bathurst stars in the one man show

Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2023

Tories tire of Owen Jones’s conference doorstepping

‘Owen’s gig is as original as it is insightful,’ said one councillor

Evening Standard · Oct 6, 2023

‘Home for hell-raisers’: new owners of Groucho Club seek young blood

Private members’ club that takes pride in being a ‘hub for creatives’ to consider international expansion

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2022

How Lester Piggott beat the odds to become the punters’ best friend

Bellhops, chambermaids, housewives and dentists loved to bet on Piggott and, at his peak, he cost bookmakers millions in lost earnings

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2022