Babington House

And you've now got sort of getting on for three decades of having seen this misery.

And you know what I love about you Lindsay is you lead this life of contrast because I'll see you, you know we're joined friends with Bella Freud who was on this podcast recently, I'll see you at a party at her shop in Marylebone or I'll see you at Babington House, the Soho House Hotel and yet you'll be going from there to Darfur and it's a life of contrast isn't it?

It is a life of contrast.

I think when I first started covering war, I, you know, I think Iraq was really the first big war I covered of like combat.

So looking at backdrops for people who aren't watching the video, it looks awesome.

It kind of looks like, I just got married and we went off to Babington House.

It's like a house type thing.

It kind of looks like that.

Because

I went to Babington House this week and I was like, oh, I don't know, there's some like, they're really posh women just talking about something that's happened in their business world this week with just tits everywhere, you know, and then I'm like in the corner with my like...

With your towel over your shoulders so you can like pull your pants up and then it falls down anyway when your pants are here.

Like trying to be

I once, uh, had an-

Don't get me wrong, you know, I love a, a bougie, you know, a bougie night out at Babington House.

[laughs]

But I wouldn't like the whole world to be Babington House.

For those future corporate events-

Yes, exactly

Yeah.

But that wouldn't...

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