Boris Johnson & The Oompah Loompas @savesoho

DC Editor Adam writes… Soho is a famous non conformist enclave, a paradise for free-thinkers and free spirits, a place where ideas are born.

That these facts are lost on the property magnates who would gentrify the place into homogeneity is a cause for concern.

One developer has covered its building site with slogans and quotes – presumably to spoonfeed the new vanilla Soho-ites they hope to entice with fodder for their Twitter feeds.

I suppose praise is due in their selection of the great thinkers of the age: the Oompah Loompas and Boris Johnson…

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