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CULTURE
Katherine Ryan: 'I’ve noticed men
being vocal if they feel their values
are under attack'
By Jonathan Heaf 6 February 2019
Comedians, courtesans and London’s top toasty. Please welcome to the stage, Cora Pearl!
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Over the past few years, for me at least, Covent Garden has been that patch
of cobbled earth that one woozily strays into after dinner in Soho. Maybe
you’re there to retrieve friends who, depending on the friends, have either
been watching a Wayne McGregor-choreographed ballet at the Royal Opera
House or watching another form of human contortion at the theatre.
It’s a tragedy that we’ve forgotten its attractions, its nooks. I used to spend
most Saturdays as a trend-famished teenager – all peroxide-blond frosted
tips and Suede playing through my canary-yellow Sony Sports Walkman –
wandering Floral Street in Covent Garden. I’d pop into menswear Mecca
Jones, a superbly curated store (if utterly extortionate) and peruse the
