ABSTRACT
On Friday 21 January 2005, the British newspaper The Guardian ran a series of articles exploring and commenting upon London as the ‘world in one city’ where ‘every race, colour, nation and religion’ can be found and experienced. The lead journalist behind these articles, Leo Benedictus (2005: 2), had apparently ‘spent months travelling across the capital, locating and visiting the immigrant communities that give the city its vibrancy’, commenting upon his results that ‘London in 2005 is uncharted territory. Never have so many different kinds of people tried living together in the same place before . . . New York and Toronto would contest the cosmopolitan crown, but London’s case is strong.’
