Work it! (for £1,000 a month): A guide to London's most exclusive and expensive gyms

You heard it here first — premium gyms are the new members’ clubs. Amid all the brouhaha about the Garrick Club, which has now voted to allow women as members, no one ever stopped to think about who the true power players are. And, more crucially, where they really go to network. It’s not Hugh Bonneville or Michael Gove and the answer is not 15 Garrick Street. Consider who really pulls the strings in society: the chief executives, billionaires and savvy technocrats; those in the City who took one look at the mini-Budget in 2022, said a simple No, and ended Liz Truss’s premiership.

The cultural power players (such as Kate Moss) might