Brendan Barns

City of London Council Debates Black Cabs At Bank Junction: Shravan Joshi Does A U Turn – Keith Bottomley, James Thomson & Michael Snyder Make Misleading Statements

In the full meeting of the City of London council on 20/6/24, the moral bankruptcy of this tawdry institution was fully exposed to the public, with political U turns, contraventions of standing orders, officers’ partiality, elected members’ irrational and misleading statements and masonic influence.

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Mason Edward Goodchild, Clockwork Liveryman Jani Levanen, Plastic Man Gerard O’Sullivan & Barrister David Williams Stand In Farringdon Within City Council By-Election

On the same day as the national election in the UK on 4 July 2024, there is a local council by-election in the City of London’s Farringdon Within ward. Below we provide a rundown of the four candidates – Edward Goodchild, Jani Levanen, Gerard O’Sullivan and David Williams. All are standing as ‘independents’. There is […]

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Political & Civic Context Of City Of London Planning Decisions

Amidst a flood of criticisms of the City of London Corporation’s delivery of public services, support for the executive is ebbing away as rapidly as it is for the political leadership. The apparent impropriety in the management of the planning application for 81 Newgate Street has revealed a pattern of behaviour that seems to have become standard practice in the last couple of years.

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