An elfin man with cropped black hair and a thin line of beard, he was dressed in the eccentrically antic manner of Raskolnikov.

NEWYORKER: No Death, No Taxes

Mr Hague, in a parliamentary performance which the Daily Telegraph judged eccentrically to be his best to date, accused the prime minister of throwing away 1, 000 years of British self-determination.

ECONOMIST: Not quite across the Rubicon

In the bar's seating area, patrons are rather eccentrically greeted by a stuffed giraffe in one corner and a pair of Manolo Blahniks, mounted like a hunting trophy in a glass box.

WSJ: Like Home, Only Better