Friday in Bethnal Green. Waiting at a red light in Bethnal Green Road a man and two women emerge from a public house. A man knocks the first woman to the ground and is attacked by the second, his punch misses its target. Good to see traditional Fridays in East London are being maintained.

I once had a job to Courtfield Gardens, it’s one of those locations in London that’s split into many different parts. We need number 22 and as I’m looking around for it, the idiot gives me the full postcode. What possible use is that, have I to memorise every postcode in London?

I was sitting in my cab in Regent’s Park I heard a loud thump. On of those Lycraed Lunatics, not looking on his bike has ridden into the back of a car. People stop and offer assistance, then leave not worrying about the poor bastard’s 08 VW. Well, at least he’ll be off his bike for a while.

When I was a lad we had a local road sweeper by the name of Charlie, he had developed breathing problems, probably as a result of the war, and preferred to work outdoors. Armed with just trolley containing his bins and brushes he kept the neighbourhood clean. Now today my local street cleaners have arrived, after an absence of many months, not for them one man and his barrow, one drives the lorry, the second holds the bin while the third has a broom. Could that be the reason why I pay over £1,500 Council Tax?

From these seemingly diverse cities spot the odd one out: Barcelona, Spain; Buffalo, New York; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Vancouver, Canada; Frankfurt, Germany; Anchorage, Alaska; Austin, Texas; Oslo, Norway; Reykjavik, Iceland; London, England. Yes, you guessed it – London. The city voted many times as having the best cabbies, and with the most stringent taxi licensing regulations in the world has allowed Uber to operate with predictable consequences.