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Opinions on the country’s capital and the people who live there seem to waver depending on where you come from - type ‘why do Londoners’ into Google and your query will be finished with suggestions such as ‘walk so fast’ (they have places to be), ‘call a watch a kettle’ (Cockney rhyming slang), or ‘hate the north’ (you’ll have to be more specific). But, home to over 9 million people, there’s clearly something about London that keeps people flocking to it - more people move to London annually than move out of it.

Perhaps the most famous declaration about our nation’s capital is ‘When a man is tired of London he is tired of life’. The speaker was 18th Century man of letters Samuel Johnson, sole author of one of the most influential early dictionaries of English. Johnson’s quote lingers on in the popular imagination because it captures the seemingly inexhaustible variety of this huge and beguiling metropolis.