Economically, too, London is startlingly different. The capital, unlike the country as a whole, has no budget deficit: London’s public spending matches the taxes paid in the city. The average Londoner contributes 70 percent more to Britain’s national income than people in the rest of the country.

I have small breasts that lie flattened against the chest like lappets.

regardless of our merit or default

The Doors of Perception, as Aldous Huxley called them, had opened wide, and LSD became the drug of choice.