Simon Calder: A new horizon? Start with the Axis of Ealing

There's some corner of London W5 that is forever North Korean. Indeed, you may have driven past it. The official address of the Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is 73 Gunnersbury Avenue, but motorists know the thoroughfare better as the North Circular Road. (Presumably the home-hunting diplomats discounted properties on the south side of the river on ideological grounds.)