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The rise of the West
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West London was the land of peppercorn sauce and claret, last exotic in the 1980s .
It was where George Osborne and Nick Clegg dinner-partied; it was plummy, ruddy, taxidermy incarnate.
As London recovered from the downbeat Seventies , its winners drifted to W postcodes, transforming the urban nastiness observed by Martin Amis into something banal, staid, French .
By 2016 London Fields had condemned west London to social irrelevance.
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