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.