Walking down Gower Street towards the old JFMG office on a cold, very wet November morning a couple of years ago, I looked up at the BT Tower. It was displaying the number 998 on a huge LED screen fitted way up high, near the top. I thought it was odd. Maybe I was half asleep – but I had no idea what the number meant. But then, maybe the BT techs were wide awake and testing the system.
On my first day in London this year, a cold Thursday and it’s 2012; Happy New Year. My walk from Euston...