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At the end of last month (30 September 2026) the Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Sub-Committee discussed the commission of new research by William Pettigrew on the City of London council’s role in the abolition of slavery.

Last Monday morning (28/9/26), before any of the national media covered the story, we broke the news that Alder Tim Hailes was stepping away from the role of Lord Mayor of the City of London just days before he was due to be “elected” to it.

Below we reproduce an email that was sent to all members of the Court of Common Council between 7pm and 8pm last night, 27 September 2026.

Given the Green Party Conference kicks off at the end of the week it seemed useful to remind readers that in recent decades the Green Party leadership has been more willing than those in charge of other major parties to raise the issue of the abolition of…

Those who check in with the propaganda being pumped out by the City of London Lie Machine will have noticed a press release last week about a Blue Plaque honouring Francis Barber being unveiled by Lord Mayor (in waiting) Tim Hailes and Michael Bundock* at…

At the Community and Children’s Services Committee last week, 8 September 2026, chair Helen Fentimen performed another U-turn like the one she made over the Golden Lane Sports Hall – this time on funding for 0-2 childcare at the Aldgate School.

“Lady” Lucy French, the CEO of Fleet Street Quarter (FSQ) is trying desperately hard to be completely on-message with the City council ‘leadership’.

Senior City of London councillor Tim Levene AKA Hon Timothy Charles Levene is a nepo baby – someone who has had success they don’t deserve thrust upon them thanks to their family background.

Earlier this week a report by UK China Transparency (UKCT) entitled The Alleged Underworld Boss Close To The Chinese Embassy In London was picked up the Daily Mail, who reworked the research within it to create their story Meet ‘Brother Cow’, The Milliona…

We last covered Fraser Peck in a post two months ago, noting that it was reported he’d been banned from hospitality events hosted by the City of London council including dinners at the Mansion House & Guildhall due to his involvement in the Guild of Young…

There are a number of property developer lobby groups covering the City of London and while this blog has mentioned the likes of the City Property Association (CPA), it hasn’t to date dealt with the City Architecture Forum (CAF).

It can be problematic for a councillor to belong to a community group that get grants from the local authority they sit on.

On 4/3/26 Ben Lynch published a good piece of investigative journalism in My London in which he disclosed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor still held the Freedom of the City of London, an “honour” which he had acquired “by patrimony” from his father.* Lynch

As we previously reported, the leadership of the City of London Corporation (= Council) in 2024 commissioned a report from Professor William Pettigrew on “Assessing the Connections between the Transatlantic Traffic in Enslaved African People and the City…

We’ve seen an email that Caroline Haines sent to all 125 City of London councillors on Friday, 10 July 2026, about a report on our local authority’s historical entanglement in the transatlantic slave trade.

At the City of London council Community and Children’s Services Committee meeting last week (30 June 2026) Helen Fentimen (chair) and Steve Goodman (deputy chair) changed course on their plans for for the refurbishment of the Golden Lane Leisure Centre af…