“BUSINESS IN LONDON “Art theft is like a disease you catch from your friends.” JULIAN RADCLIFFE LONDON WAS not Brighton. London was the centre of the big bad empire: dark, epic, dirty, greedy, fast. For Paul, the city was a blur: men in bespoke suits, women in heels, the Tower of London and Big Ben looming over the little specks travelling at quick clips down twisting brick streets where even the dirt on the bricks felt historic. And those streets, always winding, opened up toward huge bridg...es that arched magnificently over the Thames. Or the hectic thoroughfares—Oxford Circus, Piccadilly, Trafalgar Square—jammed with blasting car horns and the roving red walls of double-decker buses that would fly within inches of your nose at the traffic light. Here, life was charged by claustrophobic tightness. Following the city’s streets, Paul could wind up anywhere— Soho, Buckingham Palace, Brick Lane, Brixton. “I smoked some incredible stuff in Brixton, you have no idea,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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