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Hugo Rifkind

Why are we turning London into Dubai?

We're letting a living metropolis become a bank

8 March 2014

9:00 AM

8 March 2014

9:00 AM

If you’ve ever wondered what it will look like when we colonise Mars, the answer is ‘Dubai’. I was there the other week. Bloody hell, what a place. You sit there on your unabashedly fake beach on your un-abashedly fake island, perhaps basking in the shade of a palm tree that plainly wasn’t there a decade ago, because this used to be the sea.

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Hugo Rifkind is a writer for the Times.

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