Upriver
Iain Sinclair: The Thames, 25 June 2009
Thames: Sacred River
by Peter Ackroyd.
Vintage, 608 pp., £14.99, August 2008,978 0 09 942255 6 Show More
by Peter Ackroyd.
Vintage, 608 pp., £14.99, August 2008,
“... North and South Circular roads, and given London a second orbital motorway, was aborted by Boris Johnson: it was too closely associated with the former mayor, Ken Livingstone. Thames Gateway is a geographical area and a philosophy for which Johnson has no enthusiasm. Boris champions the Eagle comic wheeze of an ... ”