An Inspector Calls at London’s The Curtain where a ‘poky slit of a room’ costs an ‘excessive’ £263

An Inspector Calls at London’s The Curtain where a ‘poky slit of a room’ costs an ‘excessive’ £263 The Curtain is a six-storey brick hotel in London’s trendy Shoreditch area  The Inspector booked the lowest category of room and was charged £263 Red Rooster, The hotel’s Restaurant, is an outpost of a Harlem eatery  By … Read more

‘Sing me a song or I’ll slit your throat’: Former inmate has written about his time in prisons

SOCIETY A BIT OF A STRETCH: THE DIARIES OF A PRISONER by Chris Atkins (Atlantic Books £16.99, 336pp)  Documentary maker Chris Atkins is in a rundown cell with a psychotic prisoner discussing the intricacies of quantum mechanics. He has more prison access than any journalist could dream of, but there’s just one catch: he is … Read more