London politics diary

Sunday at Speakers’ Corner, Where Anyone May Say Anything and Everyone Will Heckle

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Sunday at Speakers’ Corner, Where Anyone May Say Anything and Everyone Will Heckle – A stepladder, a patch of tarmac and a hundred and fifty years of Londoners arguing in the open air for nothing

The Other Mayor: A Field Guide to the Square Mile’s Extremely Peculiar Government

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The Other Mayor: A Field Guide to the Square Mile’s Extremely Peculiar Government – Businesses get a vote, a man sits in Parliament to keep an eye on it, and two wicker giants lead a parade that has run for eight centuries