Most striking of all is the City of London, which has 11,700 residents but a daytime population of 390,000…

The Marxist economist Michael Roberts writes:

The City of London itself is like a large aircraft carrier sitting on the Thames, which provides work for thousands (including thousands of non-Brits) and who avoid as much as possible going into the ‘heart of darkness’ that they see as the rest of the British Isles.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...