This column first appeared in the Sunday Times (here) on Sunday 21st May 2023.

PULLING THE PLUG – By Paige Nick

I’m in a hotel. Not the kind you’re probably picturing on hearing that. I don’t want to mislead you.

There are different kinds of hotels. This one is a cheap airport hotel, in a very big, expensive city, and everybody knows those are barely even real hotels, they’re more like train stations or purgatory. And nothing at all like a holiday hotel, which is a place of joy...