At Cif I write:
At the announcement of his forthcoming Story of London festival, Boris Johnson claimed that large pockets of the capital's culture businesses had barely felt the downturn, with foreign visitors surging across Gordon's reinforced borders to devour discount deals and West End shows. I saw evidence of this myself last Saturday: a sold-out matinee performance of Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre, complete with healthy queues for interval Häagen Dazs.
More here, if you're so inclined.
