Who doesn't live in a house like this?

The Daily Mail has an entertaining feature today about The Bishops Avenue, in Hampstead, north London, haunt of the capital's international super-rich. The news hook for the story is last week's £50m sale of one of its vast houses to a Kazakh billionairess. Dubbing the exclusive street "The Chavenue", the Mail describes its oversized mansions, often uninhabited, with their electronic gates, helipads, swimming pools and panic rooms. "There's one thing money can't buy - taste", the paper notes acidly. The Mail lists many of the road's past and present residents, who include the Saudi royal family and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. But there's no mention of one particular denizen of the street, one Richard Desmond, proprietor of the Daily Express. How very, erm ... tactful of them.