People Are Sleeping in Doorways in Mayfair. The Mail Feels Sorry for the Hotel.

Around fifteen people are sleeping on the street in one of the richest corners of London. A cardboard sign nearby says: "I'm hungry."

The Daily Mail went to have a look. It came back very upset. For the hotel.

Here's the headline, from October 4, 2026. The "£1,000-a-night five-star Connaught Hotel has some uninvited guests on its doorstep."

Uninvited guests. Like they turned up without a booking.

Then the Mail gets out its calculator. A suite at the Connaught can cost "£20,000 a night." The flats above one doorway cost "around £3.7million." One man is "lying next to a parked Porsche." We learn the price of almost everything on the street. Except a bed for the night.

At night, the paper says, the street starts to look like "a third world slum." One local worries about anyone trying to sell a flat. Imagine buyers "having to step over people sleeping in the doorway."

Yes. Imagine being the buyer.

The headline also calls them "migrant rough sleepers." Sounds certain. But the article only says they are "thought to be recently arrived migrants." Thought to be. By whom? It doesn't say.

To be fair, people using the street as a toilet is a real problem. Nobody wants that outside their door. And deep in the same article, the Mail reports two useful things. Rough sleeping in London fell 10 per cent in a year. And the most common reason people end up homeless? Losing a job at short notice.

So the Mail knows. It could happen to a lot of us.

This isn't new, either. On September 20, 2026, the paper wrote about homeless people on Oxford Street. The headline was a joke on a supermarket advert: "This is not just a shanty town, it's an M&S shanty town."

In our view, that's the whole trick. When poor people sleep near expensive things, the Mail counts the expensive things.