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Reading up on him on wiki and I'm not much the wiser as to the second question. Most interesting bit is "For about eighteen months before his appointment [editor] Rajan was the media advisor to the Independent's proprietor Evgeny Lebedev, the son of Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB economic attaché"

There are clubs in London with nice premises/bar and weekly events and interesting speakers that are similar prices to getting to be Amol's occasional virtual friend & merch purchaser.