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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Yes, Amis (London Fields) and Zadie Smith (White Teeth) have both tried to nail modern London in their fiction, but I don't think either have come close. Theirs is too much a broadsheet-friendly vision of the city, with no real eye for its more subtle aspects (and, because of Britain's strange political and social structuring - a sort of welfare capitalism, of sorts - London is a very subtle, and finely balanced city, I think.)
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Hmmm. "Welfare capitalism", I think that's a pretty good summing up of my political outlook. Reward the strong, protect the weak.