Because it was hot – actually, it was a mistake – I thought I would walk from our offices in Blackfriars to Piccadilly.   In general, I am immune to the complaints of those who worry about the transformation of Soho, regarding it merely as part of a long-term process of urban change.   But even I felt a faint twinge of regret as I passed what used to be Raymond’s Revue Bar which is in the process of being dismantled and made into something which will no doubt be smarter and more anodyne:-