There is not much piazza culture, but there's plenty of street activity, which involves hurrying past others to your destination, glancingDaniel Poole, designerIt's the unique street theatre. Therefore, London is a secret city - of clubs, societies, in-groups, street cults, telephone numbers Privacy is a London fetish. As outsiders, the centre is simpler for them; it's not clogged with memory.It all sits very uneasily together; only a certain reserve makes it possible at all. Folk from the European Union have free access; then there are the Middle Easterners, the New Russians, the South Americans.. it's terrific.

Foreigners are more at home in central London than Londoners are. It was always so - England is the champion mongrel - but never more so than now The British Empire has imploded to its hub. It is the Mecca of individualism, a colossal do-it-yourself kit supplying all the components for assembling any life you wish. Though England has a control culture and is less free than some nations, in London, nothing is unavailable - only the methods of acquisition are controlled This is our famous hypocrisy.