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Amanda is absolutely correct that the problem lies with the influx of overseas investment, in the same way that parts of Belgravia are becoming wastelands as the owners of properties there spent only a handful of days in residence each year. There's no point building towers that nobody lives in. But this doesn't mean that building towers per se is wrong.

Critics roll out this "unique character" thing all the time without defining what it really means. The threat to London from vacant dwellings and unaffordable house prices is far greater than the addition of a few shapes on the skyline. London's unique character comes from the people that live here, not how it looks from the top of Primrose Hill.