You could almost feel sorry for poor Goldman, which shipped out a memo reminding employees that their estimable employer had been named one of the best places to work in the United Kingdom only weeks before the London-based Smith's "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" essay.

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The wider United Kingdom, which mostly seemed to put regional rivalries and London-bashing aside for the duration of the games, still faces the existential threat posed by the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, though the sight of gold medal-winning Scots such as Andy Murray and Chris Hoy posing with Union flags will have done no favours to the nationalist cause north of the English border.

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You don't often hear them in trendy, multicultural, metropolitan London - nor in some other parts of the United Kingdom.

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To a dismaying extent for a party that seeks to govern the United Kingdom, the Tories are the party of the south-east half of England (excluding London), where more than half their seats are.

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The vast majority of British Muslims reject the views of Bakri Mohammed -- who hasn't been allowed back in the United Kingdom since the 2005 bombings of London's transit system.

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At risk is anyone living in the United Kingdom, including even the many expat Americans who bring home six- and seven-figure salaries from their work in London at financial services firms like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group and American Express.

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