Smoked pickle

In a moment that was more Manhattan than London, Swiss Re security men pounced on our venerable correspondent Christopher Woodward, when, after three hours in the tower, he lit up a well-deserved cigarette on the building’s forecourt. The signs may not be up yet, they explained, but smoking was strictly ...

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