BRITAIN’S capital city is becoming a spoiled brat. It is stupendously rich. It sucks population out of the rest of the country and then whines when this drives up house prices. Now at Christmas, it demands the kind of baubles you would expect of an Arab princeling or a banana republic.
London this month stamped its foot and got the government to give it 5 million pounds (RM31mil) for a “study” – yes, for a study – into how it needed more concert halls to boost the ego of a conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, who wants a new 278 million pounds (RM1.7bil) concert hall of his own. This is despite 111 million pounds (RM707mil) spent between 2005 and 2007 turning the Royal Festival Hall into “the best in the world”.
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