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Yet more tall buildings are coming to London. Ten are planned for the City alone and each has the potential to transform our capital’s skyline, which has seen radical change over the past decade. Some tall buildings are undeniably well-designed and elegant but I share Anna van Praagh’s concerns in her piece last week over the quality of others currently looming over London.
Tourists think it’s all tea at The Ritz or bumping into Hugh Grant and his floppy hair, but for a true London experience, you really need to have your bike stolen. And once seized, there’s precious little chance of getting it back.
If I could go back in time to one moment in history, it would be to 20 July 1969 at 21:17 BST, when Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon. I mean, just look at Walter Cronkite’s face. But given a second whirl in the time machine, I’d opt for 3:10am on 2 May 1997, when Michael Portillo lost his seemingly unlosable Enfield Southgate seat.