http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/02/nights-of-plunder/
``Sloane Square appears on the destination boards of London buses as "via", an indicator that the bus will make a circuit of it to or from a more final place in the city's southwest quadrant. Lately the square has wanted to be more than a "via", and set out tentative cafe tables in a corner. But nobody lingers long. Its west side, where it opens into the King's Road, is ceded to the Peter Jones department store, with curved glass walls built in the 1930s as a bold experiment in Modernism. The store has been owned for over a century by an employee co-operative, the John Lewis partnership, middle England's reliable supplier of domesticity, and its windows barely bother to entice.''