In search of an election
Beppe Severgnini, our Italy correspondent and a columnist for Corriere della Sera, finds some people quite enjoying the campaign, and some quite unaware of it
WHEN it opened in 1914, the Adelphi was one of the greatest hotels in the world. With solid marble walls, indoor swimming pool, full central heating in all rooms, it was Liverpool's arrival and departure point for passengers on the great liners to America. It was here that Harold Wilson—a local MP, and a predecessor of Tony Blair's—used to spend election nights. Room 101, apparently.
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