City of London Corporation

Checkmate.

For 118 years, every government in Iran served the same master, the City of London Corporation.

In 2025, it was revealed that the City of London Corporation paid £10,000 to Peter Mandelson's firm, Global Council, in February 2025.

Global Council went into administration in February 2026 because of it being linked to Epstein.

We have Andrew Mountbatten being exposed in the Epstein files, which will boomerang back around.

And the council was so inept at this point that they weren't even given the task of actually managing the crisis at this point.

This went to the Grenfell fire response team led by the City of London Corporation and a man called John Baradell.

And the pressure and the scrutiny continued all the way to the very top because the prime minister at the time, Theresa May, succumbed to a lot of scrutiny.

She actually visited the tower on the day of the fire, but did so in private.

Of course, of course.

I remember hearing the Corporation of London had engaged you to investigate some ancient Roman remains which you discovered in the Billingsgate section.

That's right, Mr. Holmes.

They're under the basement of the Coal Exchange on Lower Thames Street.

Of course, of course.

I remember hearing the Corporation of London had engaged you to investigate some ancient Roman remains which you discovered in the Billingsgate section.

That's right, Mr. Holmes.

They're under the basement of the Coal Exchange in Lower Thames Street.

The latest was in July when Pennycook told Basildon Borough Council to consult on its latest draft strategy within three weeks and submit it for examination by the end of the year.

In June, he intervened in the examination of the city of London Corporation's emerging local plan over its potential heritage impacts, ordering inspectors not to publish their report into the strategy while he considers whether it does everything it can to adequately protect the Tower of London against the risk of unsuitable or harmful development.

In the past 18 months, he's also got involved in plan preparation at Torbay Council, Three Rivers Council, Buckinghamshire Council, South Tyneside Council, and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.

So that's a lot of interventions, isn't it? And I guess with the new local plan system that's coming into force very soon, the government is adopting a tough line when it comes to councils that are being seen to be too slow in their local plan preparation or unnecessarily delaying it.

the city of london with the bridge and harrods and the fish and chips and the people driving on the wrong side of the road was established much later adopted the same name and gradually expanded with population until it completely surrounded the jewish enclave of the city of london you can see the positions and relative sizes from the map When you read about the Lord Mayor of London, you are not reading about the chief executive of the city, but about the chief executive of the city.

The City of London Corporation, with its square mile directly in the center of London, obviously owns some very expensive real estate.

This in addition to a great deal of other property also in the city center.

But this amounts to only perhaps $10 billion in total, and as we will see, is trivial.

But, I mean, they've admitted.

They've...

I have a whole collage of... headlines from jewish organizations talking about how we need open you know the united states needs open immigration why i think israel needs open immigration but hey Quoting, For almost a thousand years, the City of London Corporation has resisted virtually every attempt by monarchs, governments, or subjects to rein in its vast financial wealth and influence, such as the corporation's political and economic influence that today some suggest the British state, rather than controlling the corporation, is in fact subservient to it.

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So this quote came from, uh, uh...

I believe it was the beginning of last year's, in 2025, um, Chris Hayward from the City of London Corporation basically saying that he wants London to be a global city, this is a global center for this new industrial transition, and also that he wants it to be the best place in the world to raise private capital to fund the global transition to a net zero future, the transition to which we- we'll get into a little bit later as we talk about the transition town movement, uh, which is indelibly linked with this.

Um, so lot to get into there.

We're gonna stick with the theme of terrorism, though.

The City of London Police has an agreement with the Home Office to act as the national lead force for fraud.

In other words, no other police force is gonna get a look in because of the profile and the nature of the crime, and they report to the board.

The board is chaired by the Home Office and includes representatives from the City of London Police, the National Crime Agency, and the City of London Corporation.

Ben, just as we close out this report, I'd just like your hot take on the fact that the City of London Corporation is on the board of the national lead force for fraud.

That's when the walls were up.

Keep the bloody riff-raff out! Following the Charles' first execution, custodianship of the park passed to the Corporation of the City of London, but which returned to Charles II in 1660.

The park was also used for cavalry training during World War I and later as a military training depot in World War II.

when the Penn Pond was also drained to disguise them from enemy surveillance.