A jewel in the crown (TT Nov03 p50-51)

London is one of the world’s great cities: which means that much of the world’s population knows something about it. There appear to be two basic facts that people know about London – it is a city of heritage, and it houses one of the world’s foremost financial centres. It is good that these statements are both true, though of course neither is the whole truth, and both conceal issues and challenges that we must all rise to.