“ When I worked at the old New Statesman magazine in London, we had an annual competition for advice to tourists visiting the city for the first time. “Try the famous echo in the British Museum Reading Room” was, I remember, one of the winners. We also advised people that prostitutes could be easily recognized by their habit of rattling collection tins, that it was considered ill-mannered not to shake hands with all other passengers before taking your seat on the London subway, and that readers doing the Times crossword on trains were always glad if you offered to help.
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Christopher Hitchens on New York City’s Petty Policies | Politics | Vanity Fair
Hitchens sets out to break as many unfollowable and ill-conceived laws as possible. The whole thing is fantastic, but I especially liked this bit of bad advice he uses to contrast London with New York.
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