London life

Published: 21 April, 2011

• EVERY day the people who live in Holborn, Bloomsbury, Finsbury are swamped by outsiders. 

Ex-mayor Ken Livingstone and now Boris Johnson, give rat-runners priority through our streets. 

The death of our citizens, be they a child knocked down by the driver of a posh media vehicle or a cyclist killed by an east European lorry driver (on cheap wages) is apparently just one of the joys of living in a capital that will be the centre of the world in 2012. Citizens will be over the moon to know that the area round Russell Square will be the “media hub” during the Olympics of 2012. 

That means that instead of a single Irish whiskey costing £5.25 in the bar of a famous international chain of hotels, as now, it will go up to terrifying heights as international journalists, on expense accounts, get “borissed” – an expression I first heard on St Patrick’s Day! 

BOB DAVENPORT,  WC1