10 April 2025, 14:02

By George Shealy

I’m writing this from Leicester Square.

To get into work today, I slalomed through a school trip from Europe, ducked and rolled beneath selfie sticks, and excuse me sorry’d my way through a large family standing in the middle of the pavement.

Like the London Eye and Big Ben, it’s become an attraction in itself: the Group of People Standing Right in Front of You in the Middle of the Pavement. We can work on the name.

But every Londoner knows what I’m talking about. The tourists. Blocking the path. Sometimes not even to check directions or take pictures. Just contemplating, existing, frozen like a family computer.

London needs a........

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