Rachel Strohm

1408 days ago

London is not a uniquely capitalist city, but a capital which has had more than 120 years of socialist and social-democratic governments, usually strongly supported by its population.

Owen Hatherley, The Government of London, NLR 122, March–April 2020

newleftreview.org

London is probably the most dominant capital city, relative to the country it governs, of any major state. In one sense, this has always been so: the seat of political power at Westminster and the financial centre in the City of London have been fixed there since the Middle Ages.