Taste of luxury

A pre-emptive apology from Loan Ranger this week, the result of an emerging markets banker on a whistle stop tour of London drawing us out of the City last Friday. We were prepared for the throngs of tourists that permanently populate London west of Fleet Street (Loan Ranger Towers is on the steps of St Paul’s, after all) but we weren’t ready for the splendour of the Dorchester Hotel, where we met for coffee to discuss all things Russia.