The big screens of Piccadilly Circus flash at nothing but a few ducks from the nearby royal park waddling nonchalantly past the fountain pool
FILE PHOTO: The light trails of buses are seen driving through a quiet Oxford Circus during the late evening, as the city at night is deserted like never before while the coronavirus disease lockdown continues, in London, Britain April 21, 2020. Picture taken with a slow shutter speed. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Gone is humanity: the crowds, the diners, the drunks, the bewildered tourists, the opera aficionados, the watchful doormen, the lovers snatching an elicit embrace. A solitary bell tolls, usually inaudible above the din, echoing along John Nash’s elegant Regent Street. Empty red bus follows empty red bus.
London’s night-time economy usually employs 1.6 million people, contributes billions of pounds to the economy and is one of Europe’s top spots for revelry alongside Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Ibiza.Its bars have long been a refuge for famous writers, musicians, resistance leaders and philosophers.
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