Harley Street resists a facelift
The world-famous medical district wants science, not salmon-sperm facials
Harley Street, a famous medical district in London, is an unusual place. It is highly successful, accounting for 40% of the capital’s private-health-care market by revenue—and 10% of Britain’s. It is almost entirely owned by aristocrats: the Howard de Walden estate controls around 850 properties in Marylebone, one of the poshest parts of the capital. Go for a consultation and you may find yourself entering a Georgian town house with a plaque outside honouring a former occupant. “Florence Nightingale left her hospital on this site for the Crimea” is carved into the brickwork of one dental clinic. Leave with a swollen mouth and a sense of history.
Explore more
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Away with TikTok, fillers and fraud”
Sir Keir Starmer’s Scottish reset is under strain
The relationship is friendlier, but more rivalrous
What on earth is what3words?
It sounds odd but it is changing how people find their way
Where next for Britain’s broken National Health Service?
To save itself, the party that founded Britain’s health service must rescue it
Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!
The rise of middle-class consciousness
Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage?
The government mulls making England’s daftest sport official
Does Britain need migrant workers?
Employers think so