A POSTCARD FROM LONDON

Abstract

London is a big city by European standards but that’s as precise as one can be. Its administrative area was already too small when defined in 1965 and becomes ever more so as its growth sucks commuters from much of England and migrants from everywhere. We know the importance of multi-scalar relationships, though, and live with very distinct and localised economic, social and political experiences in the cities, towns and villages which make up our country: various capitalisms surviving under one Queen (the rentier par excellence) but a country increasingly financialised and divided.