I didn’t know I had it so bad. For all of my 30 years living in London, I have thought my home city to be, while flawed and having been to some extent misgoverned over the years, a pretty good one. Yet listening to some recent the commentary about the city from the right-of-centre you would think I am practically living in Third World conditions. There has been an increasingly relentless campaign waged from the British political Right against London.