OPINION - Simpson’s Tavern is in London’s DNA — we must save it at any cost

London is a living city, and it is constantly remade. That is its nature and I revel in it: one in, one out. But some things are too precious to lose. The forced closure of Simpson’s Tavern — revealed by the Londoner’s Diary last week — the oldest and greatest chop house in the city, is a grotesque act of cultural vandalism: you might as well tear down St Paul’s Cathedral and build an Ibis in its place. It must be resisted.