It’s the most-discussed television advert of the year, featuring grandmother Kristin Scott Thomas taking a bicycle tuk-tuk to the John Lewis store on Oxford Street – a journey that proves to be a portal to a magical Christmas wonderland.
But the fantastical depiction of that pedal rickshaw ride through London‘s West End is exactly that – a fantasy.
The reality is rather different: dangerously-driven, garishly-lit vehicles, bedecked in tat, blaring out trashy music, while ripping off passengers with astonishingly inflated – and illegal – exploitative fares.
When the Daily Mail’s reporters tried to recreate the journey depicted in the controversial ad, they were
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