I'm John Bachelors with Joseph Sternberg of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal,

his columnist political economics each week.

He's in London. He observes London. There was a story this

week in London that we do not mean to give much attention to. Two young people who know better

used hammers in the National Art Gallery to attack a painting of,

a 19th century painting of a nude woman lying down, some version of the 19th century imagination.

And in the event, they dropped their hammers, turned around and started speaking about,

oh, I don't know, suffragettes and protests.

This is just stop oil.

There's nothing more to be said other than the fact this is London now.

I want to leave that London behind me and go to the London of

23 because in the King's speech which is the intention of the majority

government for the next year is the expectation that London will

improve services and one of the ways is ten years from now goes the

prediction all the buses all the trams, all the services

that you call upon in downtown London will be run by robots. There will be no

bus driver, there will be no trolleyrolley driver there will be no one at the

turnstile Joe do you look forward to this is this something you can celebrate

having an having no personal relationship whatsoever as you go from A to B?

I can't necessarily say I would be looking forward to it, but I also don't think it's very likely to happen,

so we're probably safe.

I mean, the background here is that Prime Minister Rishi

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