John Burn-Murdoch (FT) on the regional authoritarianism of #London:

'Its capital is the one thing keeping the UK hanging on in the upper economic echelons, but the decades-long London-centricism of everything from finance & culture to politics has engendered a reluctance to allow any other part of the country to be an agent in its own destiny in the way that London has been'.

As an ex-Londoner now living in the NW, the corrosive London-centrism of the UK only became clear when I moved out!