Where Does Michael Portillo Live Now
If you really want to know where Michael Portillo “lives,” forget the geography. He lives in the past, specifically in the golden age of British rail, circa 1960. He lives in a world where every station had a proper waiting room with a coal fire, and men wore hats. He lives on a platform between memory and nostalgia, forever clutching a paperback edition of Bradshaw’s Guide.
But physically? He’s at 34 Holland Park Avenue, London. Or in a train toilet filling out his expenses for the Ginsters pasty. Either way, he’s happy. And he’s probably wondering why you don’t own a suit in “Express Puce.”
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to check the departure board. There’s a man in a fuchsia jacket waving at me from platform 3.