Is it just me or is there something that smells particularly unpleasant tucked into the middle of Alistair Horne's review (published in this week's Spectator luxury supplement) of a meal in the new Savoy Grill? I am not one of those who senses bigotry on every hand, or who goes looking for it, but...well, you read what troubled me: ?Our conversation was beaten down by the nasal tones of Finchley Road entrepreneurs, boasting their latest high-powered deals? which carried him back to a party in the Savoy Grill in 1940 for a war-hero cousin who had brought his battalion out of Dunkirk. As they rose at the end of the meal, Horne relates, the cousin ?looked around the room and asked scathingly:'Are these really the people we fought for?' He might possibly have posed the same question today,? adds Horne, ?except that he was killed two years later at the head of his brigade in the desert.?
Source: http://www.thejc.com/blogs/geoffrey-paul/a-view-grill-0
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