In January, the Financial Times journalist Madison Marriage went to work undercover as a ‘hostess’ at something called the Presidents Club Dinner. Described, inevitably, as ‘the most un-PC event of the year’ and held at London’s ineffably grand Dorchester Hotel, it saw 360 of the country’s wealthiest men, a couple of politicians and a few celebrities being ‘entertained’ by 130 ‘hostesses’ in uniforms of short dresses and high heels. The undercover investigation revealed that hostesses were routinely groped and harassed at a drunken after-party, while one auction prize offered plastic surgery
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