While in London, and at just eight years of age, Mozart had composed this – his first ever symphony. Lucy Worsley: Mozart’s London Odyssey, BBC 2016
These letters … betray Leopold’s dawning realization that Georgian London could be a very unforgiving place. ibid.
In the years after Purcell’s death, London was beginning to reawaken. Suzy Klein, Rule, Britannia! Music, Mischief and Morals in the 18th Century I, BBC 2014
George set about ingratiating himself with the aristocracy becoming an enthusiastic supporter of Italian Opera. In 1719 the King stumped up £1,000 to help launch a new Royal Academy of Music. ibid.
London is the capital of capital. Robert Peston, Super Rich: The Greed Game, BBC 2008
4London: where drugs fuel a twenty-four-hour work-hard play-hard lifestyle. London is the cocaine capital of Europe. On the streets competition among dealers is fierce. A boom in home-grown marijuana has turned Britain into an exporting country. Drugs Inc s3e10: Coke Kings and Queens, National Geographic 2012
There are a quarter of a million regular users of cocaine in London. ibid.
In East London marijuana is king. ibid.
9 out of 10 drug suspects arrested are foreign nationals. ibid.
London’s drug market is constantly evolving. ibid.
Hell is a city much like London – A populous and smoky city. Percy Bysshe Shelley
London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Percy Bysshe Shelley, letter to Maria Gisborne 1820
We walk along a narrow dirty passage, which would effectually have stopped the Claimant had he come to this neighbourhood in search of witnesses, and at the end we find ourselves in what we should call a back-yard, but which, in the language of the neighbourhood, is a square. The square is full of refuse; heaps of dust and decaying vegetable matter lie about here and there, under the windows and in front of the doors of the squalid tumble-down houses. The windows above and below are broken and patched; the roofs of these two-storied eligible residences look as though Lord Alcester had been having some preliminary practice with his guns here before he set sail for Alexandria. All these places are let out in single rooms at prices varying from 2s. 6d to 4s a week. We can see a good deal of the inside through the cracks and crevices and broken panes, but if we knock at the door we shall get a view of the in-habitants. George R Sims, How the Poor Live, and Horrible London
In 1886 the world’s first deep underground railway was dug in London. Ronald Top, Industrial Revelations: Europe s4e3: The City, Discovery 2006
I don't know what London’s coming to – the higher the buildings the lower the morals. Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler
In the middle of the nineteenth century there was no children’s hospital in London. Kenneth Clark, Civilisation 13/13: Heroic Materialism, BBC 1969
Violence was endemic ... Without any proper sewage system medieval London stank to high heaven ... Dick Whittington had to watch where he put his feet because the streets of London were paved with something very different from gold. And England was probably the most prosperous European country. Life was even nastier and more brutal and shorter in France. No, six-hundred years ago the idea of a civilised West would have seemed absurd. Niall Ferguson, Civilisation: Is the West History I? Competition, Channel 4 2011
In England the most important commercial centre in the country was almost completely autonomous: the City of London Corporation can trace its origins back to the twelve century ... The world’s oldest autonomous commercial institution. ibid.
The City was never in awe of the Crown. And the wealthier the City became the more leverage it had. Loans to the Crown became the key to urban autonomy. And the masters of the medieval universe were the livery companies. ibid.
The English got better stimulants too: they got the Coffee House. While the Chinese got the Opium den. ibid.
Today we were running an exercise for a company – bear in mind I’m now in the private sector – and we sat everybody down in the City – a thousand people involved in the whole organisation for the Crisis Team – and the peculiar thing was, we based our scenario on the simultaneous attacks on the underground and main line stations. So we had to suddenly switch an exercise from fictional to real. Peter Power, news interview re 7/7 London bomb exercises same morning same stations and same times
Because at half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise – a company of over a thousand people in London – based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations that happened this morning. So I still have the hairs at the back of my neck standing upright. Peter Power, Visor Consultants Ltd, interview BBC Radio 5
We planned this for a company and for obvious reasons I don’t want to reveal their name. Peter Power
On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions ... The story presented by the media of that tragic day is nothing more than a conspiracy. A conspiracy used by police, government and the media to cover up a far more sinister truth. The story we’ve been told is as follows: four British Muslim men exploded backpack bombs as part of the continuing jihad from Al Qaeda cells. The suicide bombings were an attack on Britain. Eye on Britain: The Search for Truth, 2008
London is equipped with more CCTV cameras than any city on Earth ... On the Number 30 bus not one out of the four security cameras were working that day ... This bus heading for Hackney Wick was also the only bus to be diverted that day after the first three explosions had gone off ... Contrary evidence to the official report suggests that the explosions on board the trains and bus could not have been caused by explosives held in backpacks. Eye-witnesses reported that the floor of the trains were pushed upward as if the explosion had come from underneath the train ... There was no 740 train from Luton to Kings Cross Thames Link station on July 7th ... Somehow, in an explosion which completely destroyed steel carriages, passports made of paper survived. According to West Yorkshire police, a highly trained terrorist cell able to elude authorities managed to leave a car in Luton Station Car Park with a boot full of explosives to be found later by police. Why has a paper trail been left that allows the investigation to go in only one direction? ibid.
National polls before 7/7/05 showed that a pro-war Labour was sure to lose. The British government needed a pretext to join with George Bush in the War on Terror. 7/7 created the perfect spectre to convince Britons to relinquish their liberty in the name of security. And the blame could be put on Iraq to legitimise the crusade and cash in on the trillion-dollar royal and military weapons contracts. And ultimately to succumb to the New World Order. ibid.
We are supposed to believe it was some kind of coincidence there was also an anti-terrorist drill going on on 7/7, and again, just like 9/11 they were talking about attacks on the same targets at the same tube stations at exactly the same time as the actual attack happened ... providing some kind of cover for what must be operations orchestrated in some way by the state. David Shayler, former MI5 agent
Rather curiously, there are no reliable witnesses who reported seeing the four so-called suicide bombers that day in London. In fact, some people have reported that the police tried to pressure them into saying they had seen the four suicide bombers. According to the official narrative, the police recovered documents bearing the name of Khan and Tanweer from the bomb site close to Aldgate Station by midnight on the 7th. David Shayler, Mind the Gap
Unconfirmed reports by Stagecoach employees have suggested that irregular maintenance work took place on the bus on the weeks prior to 7/7. Although almost all London buses have CCTV, the three cameras on the bomb bus were not working that day. There has been no official explanation for this. The entire attack should have been caught on traffic cameras, yet no footage has ever been released. ibid.
In days leading up to 7/7/2005 there were hoax bomb scares. 7/7 Ripple Effect, The Truth, Muad Dib
Why would a publishing company want to run an exercise involving blowing up tube trains? ibid.
No CCTV footage of the four Muslims boarding the tube trains has been released … The four Muslims were not on the tube trains that blew up … Actors or patsies? ibid.
‘Khan may even have been working as an informant for the security service.’ ibid. Charles Shoebridge
They were British patriots working for MI5 all along … They were set up as patsies and eliminated. ibid.
7/7 was a false flag psy-op carried out by the security services. ibid.
Transport Security firm ICTS, another Israeli company, has an office just a mile away from Luton train station, which is suspected to be where the Muslim actors received their final instructions before setting off for the train station – the details of which trains to board, which carriages to get into, where to sit, and which bus to catch, where to sit on it and at what time. ibid.
Lots of video experts have analysed this Luton Station photo and all agree it has been fabricated. ibid.