Until recently, the UK was made up of four nations. Today, however, it’s made up of five. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland… and London.

There’s no getting away from it. London is a different country now. It has its own economy, its own culture, its own language. Put it like this. Today I went to see Sadiq Khan, the new Mayor of London, give a speech about the EU referendum. His venue was a creative accelerator.

If, like me, you don’t live in London, you may be wondering what a creative accelerator is. Well, according to its website, it is a “workspace” which is “designed to spark serendipity” and “creative collisions” between a “carefully curated community” of “thinkers and makers”.

I’ve been trying to work out how I would translate that sentence into English. The closest I can come up with is: “a big building full of young people trying to design stuff for phones”.