Foreigners want to buy property in London not just because they want to live there, but also because they regard it as a safe investment.
The Maltby Street Market: Ropewalk offers some of the tastiest street food in London, not to mention pop-up stands for London meadery Gosnells, honey-beer brewers Hiver and local craft beer purveyors The Bottle Shop.
But growth lost in London is not generally redistributed to the rest of the country, so a weak London economy means a less dynamic British economy, argues Mr McWilliams.
Tata Steel, for example, bought Corus with loans from banks in London, not Mumbai.
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But the establishment of a major contemporary-art museum in London has not been without problems.
"Taboo, " Boy George's foray into the world of musicals, went fine in London but not in New York.
But some in the property sector argue that London should not be preventing inward investment during a recession.
London is not the first to sell memorabilia in order to raise funds towards the cost of putting on the Games.
And that the checks from the office in London had not been stringent enough in the rush to publication.
He goes into this year's mayoral elections saying that he will be disappointed if crime in London does not halve.
Britain's Foreign Office in London would not comment on the latest report.
The working group argues a currency union between Edinburgh and London would not be vulnerable to the problems that have beset the eurozone.
Mr Inwood, in his book, concedes that for most of its history London has not done too badly without a central guiding hand.
His goal, he said, was to show the ways the horrific crimes affected life in London, not to answer the mystery of Jack's identity.
The congestion charge for vehicles entering central London does not apply during the festive period and there are no on-street parking charges in Westminster.
But most historians agree that it was in London, not on the coast, where the first fish and chips shop (called a chippie) opened its doors.
Sixth, whether Islamists prove to have been responsible for today's attacks in London or not, concerted efforts are in order to counter and defeat their ideology.
About 450 troops and 1, 700 extra police officers began guarding Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, and the use of troops in the centre of London has not been ruled out.
One of the arguments is that London would not have won the 2012 Games had the Olympic committee heard that the stadium would be turned into a football ground.
Perhaps this helps explain why most of the 250 elephants that were recently on display and for sale in London were not painted white but in very bright colours.
For all the oligarchs and bankers making their home in London, not all the streets are paved with gold: there are areas of the city where life expectancy is below the Welsh average.
BA, bereft of its standard-bearer, is looking for ways to cosset passengers forced to spend seven hours in the air between New York and London, not three and a half.
Until the arrangements have been finalised, Locog and Transport for London will not be able to inform the public and businesses of the likely impact of the Games on the road network.
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Mr Scandiuzzi, one of the few Italian singers in this year's line-up, confesses that he is slightly embarrassed and bemused that such a phenomenon should be emanating from London, not from Italy.
Since then, the bones have lain undisturbed just 2.5 meters (8 feet) below the surface in one of the few areas of the central London neighborhood not to have been developed over the years.
Not all concrete ideals of the post-war building boom have survived, Alison and Peter Smithson's polemic Robin Hood Gardens in east London is not long for this life, despite the protestations of the architectural elite.
And yet a British court in London - not a European court in Strasbourg - has now provided yet another hurdle in the way of the deportation of what Mrs May called "a dangerous man".
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