For D., it started with an idyllic-seeming school gathering: one house, hosting an ever-changing pack of fifth graders and assorted parents weekly, and welcoming her son, who was new to the school.
At Eastern Pavilion Banqueting Hall, a Pakistani-Bangladeshi curry house hosting the Corbynistas who have been out-door-knocked that day, McMahon takes the stage, a garish red-and-white Momentum banner flying behind him.
On Wednesday night, she held a party at La Scala, the famed opera house — hosting an Italian cousin to the extravagant Met gala, which she is also in charge of back in the United States.
The problem is while FitzPatrick's clapped-out moral relativism would be howled down on any undergraduate philosophy course, at a smart country house hosting endless seminars for BBC bureaucrats, this passes for received wisdom.
5a Burlington Gardens, London W1, 020 7434 1500, cecconis.co.uk Belle époque restaurant near the Seine: elegant, very traditionally Parisian and terribly chic. 1 rue du Pont Louis Philippe, 75004 Paris, 00 33 1 4278 3164 Candlelit, stuffed to the rafters with pretty vintage furniture, this dark-panelled trattoria is the venue for any fashion house hosting a dinner.
Not only was Bill Clinton in the house, hosting some folks from his Global Summit, but so were Barry Diller of IAC/InterActiveCorp, Peter A. Chernin, formerly the president of the News Corporation, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, who runs Time Warner, and Edgar Bronfman Jr., head of the Warner Music Group.
His gigantic new house hosted no one.
Last week the D.P.A. and Paddle8, an online auction house, hosted a talk by the artist Fred Tomaselli.
Last March he attended a charity event at London's Bridgewater House hosted by Trudie Styler, the wife of Sting.
2. Peril at End House (1932) The impoverished owner of End House hosts a party where fireworks camouflage the shot that kills her cousin.
Following the service, guests will attend a private tea at Clarence House, hosted by Prince Charles, where guests will be served christening cake.
