Read past the reflex leftism and this is perceptive: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/opinion/roger-cohen-lovely-lamentable-london.html?_r=0 … (Consonant with my sense of the place.)
"It presides with an air of superiority, like squeaky-clean Singapore looking down on Southeast Asia. ..."
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"... think of London as having seceded from the rest of Britain, a city-state unto itself." -- I heard a lot of that when I was there. ...
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... Makes it hard to be even close to entirely negative about what's happening there. (The fact Cohen disapproves makes it all the sweeter.)
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