THE DIVERSITY PROJECT

The pedestrian area around the Stock Exchange has at last been cleared of half an acre or rotting flowers - now they've got this festival of the world's "cultures"...

Great excuse for entrepreneurial sharks to set up stalls selling watered-down Mojitos, dodgy chorizos sliced onto pseudo Spanish bread, and glamorous Vietnamese girls in outrageous vermillion cheongsams selling bamboo shoots sautéed in chilli & banana-flower syrup - yeah, yeah...

And the "music" - I fled the "music" - while the trebles threatened to perforate eardrums, the sub-basses made the whole world wobble. I was out of there - whoosh!!