Damien

I think stuff to do, quality of the city and so on are important. For all the arguments about infrastructure, time zones, costings e.t.c that must go into these decisions they must also consider where the bosses actually want to be based.

Paris would be a bigger threat to London IMO if their political situation was more stable. It has the capacity, the infrastructure, the things to do and so on.

London and Paris are Europe's 'big' cities. Sitting alongside New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong. I don't think Frankfurt, Dublin or even Rome and Berlin come close.