Manhattan-on-Thames; Londonistan; Londongrad; Reykjavik-on-Thames

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It seems more likely that London will simply resemble the less prepossessing city it was in the 1970s and 1980s, before the excesses and excitements of the New Labour epoch: a drabber place, less magnetic to foreigners, worse hit than its rivals—like Britain as a whole—by the global downturn. London, in short, may revert to being plain old London-on-Thames.