London 1765: A little boy by the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And he was now to be the subject of a rigorous examination … placing the boy on music trial. Lucy Worsley: Mozart’s London Odyssey, BBC 2024
This is the fascinating story of the pivotal year that little Mozart and his family spent in London. ibid.
Writing perfect pieces of music at just eight years old … He’s given us some of the greatest symphonies, concertos and just plain tunes the world has ever known. ibid.
At the forefront of a new fashion for public concerts. ibid.
Leopold started to believe that dark forces were working against the Mozart family. ibid.
‘London’, he writes, ‘is a dangerous place where the inhabitants have no religion, and it’s filled with evil’. ibid.
[David Cameron]: ‘These are sickening scenes. Scenes of people looting, vandalizing, thieving, robbing, and it has to be confronted and defeated.’ JimmytheGiant podcast: The Forgotten Riots that Almost Destroyed London
For 5 days straight in the summer of 2011 England turned into The Purge. This was an insane time to live through. ibid.
The biggest riots in modern British history. ibid.
Rumours very quickly started to circulate. ibid.
Very hard to pinpoint the exact moment it went from a peaceful protest into a full-scale riot. ibid.
A very different Britain that doesn’t get a lot of publicity. ibid.
‘Owen Jones: Why chavs were the riots’ scapegoats’. ibid. online article 01 May 2012
The next morning the nation woke up in shock. We were now getting reports of the aftermath of the riots: entire buildings had been burnt to the ground, 26 policemen were injured, 55 arrests were made, cars were set on fire, and shops were being looted. ibid.
These copy-cat riots were popping up in all parts of London. ibid.
The police officer was the one who shot the other police officer, and Mark Duggan hadn’t shot anyone. ibid.
We here a lot these days that Britain is being ‘invaded’. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Real Foreign Invasion of Britain
City of London: Transactions between two non-residents of Britain who were using foreign currencies were no longer banned by UK regulation … Legally, they were outside of British jurisdiction. ibid.
As you would expect, the money came a-pouring in to the City of London … This unregulated, shadowy market. ibid.
The City of London had established a second British empire. ibid.
‘London has become the Dirty Money capital of the world.’ iibid. TV news
Africa: Massive massive amounts of wealth is just being siphoned out, completely distabilizing whole countries, forcing people to migrate and leave their homes. ibid.
In June 1974 a very very strange thing happened in Britain. Heathrow Airport, then as now the busiest airport in the UK and one of the most important in the world, was suddenly invaded. In a fast operation 400 British military personnel plus police began to isolate the airport using armoured vehicles to set up checkpoints and roadblocks while armed soldiers and police began checking vehicles and drivers’ documents. The managers of Heathrow had not been forewarned. Mark Felton: Operation Clockwork Orange: Secret Military Coup Against British Prime Minister, Mark Felton productions, Youtube 2025
When news of this action, codenamed Operation Marmaion, reached 10 Downing Street, the home of the British prime minister, it caused considerable alarm in the prime minister’s office. The prime minister, Harold Wilson, had not been informed of such an operation. ibid.
MI5 sent Peter Wright [Spycatcher] to talk to the chief doctor at Porton Down, Britain’s top-secret chemical and biological warfare establishment. The doctor stated that he and his staff had absolutely no idea how Gaitskill could have contracted the disease. MI5, already suspicious of Harold Wilson’s loyalties hence their file on him, suspected that Gaitskill might have been assassinated by the KGB to ensure Harold Wilson became Labour prime minister. ibid.
[journalist]: ‘There is no question that London is the dirty money capital of the world.’ Financial Times Films: The London Laundromat, Youtube 2022
‘The UK didn’t just turn a blind eye to Russian money; we welcomed it.’ ibid.
‘The UK appears to have complely lost its moral compass.’ ibid. Hodge
London: This full suite of services for putting a legitimate face on yourself. ibid. journalist
One of the attractions of being in London is the network of lawyers, accountants, oligarchs, kleptocrats, do deals. English law provides a stamp of legitimacy. ibid.
The kleptocrats are at war with democracy. ibid.
Throughout the world inequality is soaring to new heights. And the wealth of nations that once provided prosperity for the majority has gone missing. This is the story of powerful forces deepening the divide between the few and the many. Moconomy: The Price We Pay, 2014
The golden decades of the liberal state which is also the welfare state , I think they’re gone, their finished. This liberal state is in decay. ibid. Comment
10 to 15 per cent of the world’s financial wealth basically being invested offshore beyond the reach of tax authorities. ibid.
The square mile of the City of London retains all the ancient rights and privileges and resources of the ancient City of London. ibid.
More or less a half of the whole global offshore system is in some way British. ibid.
In London the result is they created an offshore market. ibid.
London: So here we had Planet Finance. ibid.
Unless we have real international cooperation, a jurisdiction like Quebec cannot act alone without being threatened with exile. ibid.
We have to organise effectively around these global industries. ibid.
We must put an end to this and reconnect where actual business takes place. ibid.
Unbelievable unprecedented concentrations of wealth within the market system. ibid.
We now have this extraordinary phenomenon called high-frequency trading. ibid.
I forgot I had a gig, to be honest with you. About 6 o’clock at night I ran out the door, and my partner said, Where are you going? I said, I’ve got a gig in London. She said, Why are you going there? London is a shithole. I said, That’s a bit racist. You wouldn’t say that about an English city, would you? Andrew Lawrence: Borderline Illegal, Comedy Unleashed
Sadiq Khan: In East London he got 125% of the vote. ibid.
He [Khan] said, London’s for everyone. And it is. As long as you’ve got a stab-proof vest. ibid.
I just assumed after the gig I’d be in police custody. ibid.