New Statesman · 21 Oct 2026
Drinking with the ghost of Hemingway
The American Bar in London’s Savoy Hotel is hard to get in to on a Monday at 5pm. This might be the only bar in the capital that is hard to get in to on a Monday at 5pm – bucking a nightlife trend that’s been driven by, in no particular order: puritanical youngsters who don’t drink; an exploded pipeline (2023) somewhere in the North Sea; misadventures in Iran (2026); and, I dunno, George Osborne? Am I contractually obliged to say that?
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