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High life

Alcohol is the perfect cure for deafness

2 November 2019

9:00 AM

2 November 2019

9:00 AM

New York

 
A busy ten days, or nights rather, with some heroic drinking thrown in for good measure. Hangovers discriminate against the old nowadays, but no one is doing anything about it — not in Washington, not in New York, not in London. Our former chairman Algy Cluff’s dinner party at a gentleman’s club, followed by an extremely funny speech given by him, started me boozing and things didn’t let up.

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