Please please please can we stop blaming London for everything okay thanks bye https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/12/why-simplistic-bashing-london-needs-end

My mentions tonight are going to be an absolute blast aren't they

One thought stemming from all this: a lot of people outside London seem to think that Londoners hate the rest of the country. I... really don't think that's true. Ignore it, are ignorant of it, yes. But the idea London hates them back is if anything a comforting fiction

There's a weird bit in an early Ian Rankin novel, where Rebus is in London and half the people he meets are racist against the Scottish. That feels like the same sort of thing: it's more dignified to imagine that Londoners hate Scotland than that they just don't care about it.

This is a fair point, though I wonder if its a form of confirmation bias. Two or three incidents from absolute wankers become "this entire city of 9m people hates me and everyone like me" https://twitter.com/Buscemian/status/1340290690882953217?s=19