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Tony Judt, [2001], "Reappraisals".It is an international truism today that London is once again "swinging". It is prosperous, bustling, cosmopolitan: a world-class financial and cultural mecca, etc. Among young Europeans it is the place to be. And something odd has happened to Londoners themselves - they actually seem to believe everything they hear about their city, which may account for Labour's success there. The sceptical, mocking Cockney has been replaced by a town full of civic cheerleaders. No one seriously denies that Britain's capital city is overpriced and overcrowded, that its transport system is inadequate, its labouring classes cannot afford housing, and its Victorian-era sewage system is dangerously dilapidated. But Londoners themselves today happily entertain a form of cognitive dissonance. Yes, it's all true, they concede - but all the same, London is "back".
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