The City is not what it was. You hear the phrase repeated all the time and not just from the old guard, though it’s true, the lunches are no longer so long and bibulous, and not everything can be so easily attributed to expenses.
No, it’s as much to do with the physicality. Once-famous brass plates have gone, and in their place have come anonymous steel and glass towers. High-rise apartments too, virtually unheard of in the Square Mile.
