While the prime minister was on the phone to President Obama this afternoon, the Miliband brothers were both at the Primrose Hill summer fair.
This genteel summer jamboree centres on Chalcot Square, the gracious georgian heart of what some locals call ‘the island’ (there is no through traffic). It is a super-chichi enclave of ultra-pricey knick-knack shops and multi-million pound houses two miles north of central London.
In the charming, pastel-coloured high street, you can buy sixteen different kinds of cappuccino, but there is no laundrette, no corner shop, no ATM.
Not only does Jude Law live in Primrose Hill, it is where you would expect Jude Law to live. In fact, it is where his sybaritic character in The Talented Mr Ripley would have had his London flat. (more…)