London has become one of the great world cities just a decade or so after pundits were predicting her decline. What’s the evidence? “An amalgam of the world language, an open culture, two of the world’s top 10 universities and a vibrant cultural and intellectual life. Example: Britain now publishes more book titles than any other country. Further example: there are more Chinese students in the UK than in any other country, again more than the US. Of course, this is a UK phenomenon but it is one that is skewed disproportionately to the South-east.”