Putney Passions

Thank you England! Thanks for giving us London – an international city for the world. Its majesty, its history, its beauty, it's convenience for world travel. You've selflessly (unwittingly?) donated this great city to all global citizens to call home.

Sorry for the persistent and increasingly effective cleansing of all things particularly English from London; It's necessary you see. We're defining a new homeland here, as well as in other international capitals; An international metropolis has to have a certain standard of convenience, modernity, and style; We'll keep the English bits as a unique colour and flair! (Please note the English spelling of color).

Some lament that London, England is dead. I doubt it; however, I'm not English. For English London to be dead is to say that the English have been too weak to establish a permanent and unique character to the place. I don't think so. London has a civility, intelligence, pride, history and openness that other world capitals don't have. It is true that this is invisible to many proud English people; alas what is most truly yourself is invisible to yourself; what is invisible is no less real.

• Thank you for the theatre
• Thank you for Buckingham Palace
• Thank you for Covent Garden
• Thank you for The Tower
• Thank you for The City
• Thank you for Soho
• Thank you for fashion
• Thank you for Bobbies without guns
• Thank you for the best taxis in the world
• Thank you for double decker busses (but not for those bendy things..)
• Thanks for fixing a lot of the rolling stock on the rails
• Thanks for St. Pauls
• Thanks for having Parliament here
• Thanks for Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus
• Thanks for getting rid of the pigeons in Trafalgar Square
• Thanks for all the great parks and heaths
• Thanks for Portobello Road
• Thank you for Heathrow airport
• Thank you for Eurostar to Paris
• Thank you for welcoming other nationalities in a way that has people from all over the world aspire to move here
• Thanks for your brave response to the bombings on 7th July 2005. I've never noticed such a coming together of citizens in London in my 13 years here.

So celebrate London!

Celebrate London England!

Celebrate London Great Britain.

Celebrate London in Europe and the World.

As a Swiss friend points out to me, London is the current capital of the world. Be proud.

With love,

A world-travelling thirty-something dual citizen metrosexual expat executive visionary entrepreneur