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Long story short, he sums up contemporary London as Geneva on Thames.
I've not read the article in question but it seems like a poor comparison. Geneva has trains which run on time, it's exceptionally clean, there are barely any non-white people, its got a huge fucking lake and mountains not far from it, it's a cultural desert and it's home to the worst dressed people on earth.
Clive Martin is the pop cultural critic who best dissects the zeitgeist and its discontents:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/author/clive-martin
Long story short, he sums up contemporary London as Geneva on Thames.