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# This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah (2016-01-28) Hardcover – 1755

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Eye Opening Antidote to Nostalgia for London
        
*by K***D on May 31, 2018*

For someone who thinks they are familiar with London this is required reading. Not only does it explain the gradual changes in high street population over the last four decades, but it is a shocking revelation of what is going on behind doors in dilapidated council housing and neglected terraces as well as stylish houses and luxury flats that come with maids and chauffeurs. Russian millionaires guarding their lives, scared Arab boys, and exiled kings of faltering nations  all live together in a swirling unreality. Drugs have displaced identity with a vague sense of global society.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐ Grim
        
*by E***A on January 13, 2018*

We read this for book club, and found plenty to discuss. What I want to say, as a person who teaches immigrants in the US, is that this book is relentlessly negative and depressing, while my experience with immigrants to the US is that they are almost uniformly optimistic. So it's a little hard for me to tell whether that is a real difference between the US and UK immigrant experience, or whether the mood was colored by the interviewer/author himself.I felt that the book needed a stronger narrative structure, either following a single person through several stages of immigration and culture shock and adjustment, or talking to people who represent those stages. Or maybe even a geographic organizing principle. It felt random, maybe by intent. After a while, it got tedious.The book did help me understand why the UK voted for Brexit. On the other hand, London itself voted *against* Brexit, while the rural areas voted for it, so this doesn't really explain that fact at all.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This is London": It's Not. Unbalanced but deeply interesting view of London's underside to its prosperity and success
        
*by H***D on March 22, 2016*

This is a stark account of the immigrant under belly of London and gripping, interesting and pretty grim. I have lived in London for nearly half a century, worked in multi racial manufacturing, and know people of many races spread across the north, east, west and south of the city; and none of the London I know is anything like this. And that really is his point in writing it: to uncover what most Londoners don't see, don't understand. The situation of most of the immigrants he covers is pretty depressing, but also in most cases far better than what they would face at home. Hence their willingness to pay a high price to get to the UK. But the cumulative effect if read by someone from the UK provinces or from another country is grossly misleading. The title is inaccurate: this is not London. This is an overlooked desperately poor cross section, with a dash of equally depressing lives rich middle eastern globals and their Filipina maids. This is a book about the bottom 10% and should be labelled as such. And London has been drawing in rural poor for 500 years and their situation has usually been equally dire.When people in the US or in provincial England read the reviews of this book in the Daily Mail, they have all their worst prejudices confirmed. Ben Judah says he had to see it all for himself; which is worthy but he uses statistics very selectively to make his points and his picture is very unbalanced. Take education: his only reference to it is pretty dire schools where Asian girls are discouraged by their families from working hard at school and some references to gangs in schools. The reality is that over 60% of children in London schools go on to university and London exam results are better than any other region in the country. In the largely immigrant free West of England only 40% of children go on to university.  And London has its share of Afro Carribbean and Asian Tiger Mums and Dads driving their kids performance. Asian girls and boys do far better than average working class white boys in school and in university, tragically for the latter. And yes there is crime but half the murder rate of Glasgow which has far fewer immigrants. And I pick these stats in a selective way just like the author but to provide some counter point to his relentless focus on the downside. Best if you go look at the stats yourselves.Some more stats: 60% of Londoners have university degrees. London generates nearly a quarter of UK GNP with one eighth of its population. 48% of UK growth since the 2008 Crash has been in London. And 55% of Londoners own their own homes, though this is falling because of high prices. And guess what: high prices mean someone can afford to buy the property and someone can afford to pay the rents.
  

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