OPINION - Whimsy is now dead in London — why do I have to book restaurants and theatres months in advance?

Fancy eating out, catching a show or doing quite literally anything beyond your own four walls this side of 2024? Good luck: we’re now in the grip of booked-up Britain. What appeared to be a blip during the post-Covid days is back, bigtime, with every seat across the capital seemingly accounted for from now until the end of time.