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May be of interest in relation to the opaque nature of British history - The City of London’s strange history Lord Glasman on what the Romans did for the Squar

May be of interest in relation to the opaque nature of British history - The City of London’s strange history Lord Glasman on what the Romans did for the Square Mile https://www.ft.com/content/7c8f24fa-3aa5-11e4-bd08-00144feabdc0 https://www.ft.com/content/7c8f24fa-3aa5-11e4-bd08-00144feab... Alway interesting to try to read the tea leaves on the relationship between the two UK entities who run the two sovereign states - the palace and the city of London

euroderf 4y ago
Amen to that. The more you know about the City of London (which is NOT the city of London), the fishier the whole setup sounds. "An ancient, semi-alien entity lodged inside the British nation state." "The last of England's rotten boroughs." Predating Parliament and not subject to it. Kinda makes ya wonder if the entire purpose of Brexit was to resist any hint of financial regulation by the EU. Over the years The Guardian has had a number of interesting articles about the City, such as [1]. [1]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-city-medieval https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corpor...