🚓 What Cab News

I’ve recently received this email from British Airways: “From trips to the airport to rides across town, getting around with Uber will help you get away sooner. If you haven’t already, simply link up your Uber and British Airways Executive Club accounts.” So there you have it, flying the flag with Uber.

🎧 What I’m Listening

Listening on BBC Sounds – Fever: The Hunt For Covid’s Origin, a chaos of cover-ups, coincidences, and conspiracy theories, this is one of the biggest questions of our time: Just where did Covid-19 come from?

📖 What I’m Reading

Christopher Fowler, who has recently died, wrote a series of detective novels featuring the Met’s Peculiar Crimes Unit, led by London’s longest-serving detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May who with their wits, idiosyncratic practices and a plentiful supply of boiled sweets solve London’s most perplexing crimes. I’m reading book two (of 18) The Water Room.

📺 What I’m watching

Playing out on Drama TV is Just Good Friends, it was written by John Sullivan who was starting to write at the time Only Fools and Horses, it has all the clever hallmarks of this brilliant wordsmith.

❓ What else

I have this ritual when booking into a hotel, probably because I’ve watched too many 1970s disaster movies, the first thing I check out is the fire escapes. So when Zedwell Hotel opened “London’s first and only underground hotel experience”, I was naturally curious as to how guests could evacuate above ground onto Tottenham Court Road. The hotel is, of course, spinning this as a feature, billing itself as a place “designed to prioritise sleep, positive health, and overall wellbeing.”