"It's Something New, They Call it Tandoori..."

The Syed brothers opened Durbar in 1956 when there were fewer than 20 Indian restaurants in London and Winston Churchill had just resigned as prime minister in favour of Anthony Eden.

Fifty years on, there are about 8,500 Indian restaurants in the UK, more people are employed in the preparation and serving of Indian food than in the shipbuilding, coal mining and steel industries put together and someone who should be resigning is dragging his feet.

--Fay Maschler in the London Evening Standard, here
(and thanks, Joel)

Fn. In one of her many volumes of memoirs, Doris Lessing tells about going down to Leicester Square on New Year's Eve 1950 (I guess), to see the action. No one was there.