Taste of the Orient – a tour with a difference
In a spare half hour recently I took out the ‘Blue Guide’ to London to flick through it. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but as I leafed through the book I began to feel that it was describing a different London from the one I knew.
It was a London that didn’t have Stoke Newington or the Edgware Road in it. A London without curry houses or balti places. A London without gurdwaras or mosques or black people or council estates. In short, it was London presented for the slightly literary traveller as a neat poached fillet – skinless, …read more
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