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Strong rec Hagelin · 2017-03 · on “London’s Big Dig Reveals Layers of History”

CGP Grey's "The (Secret) City of London" are great videos on the topic of the City of London (vs. London) Part 1: [LINK] Part 2: [this video]

Strong rec mstade · 2021-10 · on “Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement”

I used to live and work in the city and loved telling people about the dragons guarding the city borders and the often weird and funny traditions. As much as the city is a hub of corporations it's actually far from the soulless place many make it out to be, and there is lots of interesting history there if you care to look. My favorite gateway drugs to learning more about the city of London are probably CGP Grey's videos: The (Secret) City of London: History Edition: [LINK] The (Secret) City of London: Government Edition: [this video]

Recommends yoshamano · 2015-12 · on “The fall of Jersey: how a tax haven goes bust”

CGP Grey does a really good job giving an overview of the history of The City of London. [LINK] Along with another video about the governing structure of The City of London. [this video]

Recommends Malic · 2016-05 · on “Dark money: London’s dirty secret”

If anyone cares to know more about the City of London, CGP Grey did a nice two-parter video describing its history, its privileges and how to become mayor if you care to. The (Secret) City of London, Part 1: History [LINK] The (Secret) City of London, Part 2: Government [this video]

Recommends mstade · 2019-02 · on “London's billion-pound guilds”

I don’t know whether this is true because I never looked into it really, but a colleague of mine in the ndustry told me I could join the banker’s guild. His words were that because I lived in the city[1] at the time, and also worked for a bank in the city, I’d be eligible for membership if the bank would nominate or sponsor me as a representative. I’m hazy on the details, it was years ago, and I don’t really know whether it’s true since as mentioned I never checked it out. I kind of regret not doing so now though, since moving out of the city I’ve learned much more of it’s (weird and interesting) history and it would’ve been fun to at least try to see some of this from the inside. It probabl

Recommends Lio · 2022-10 · on “The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display”

Well on the one hand you're saying it's not that strange, on the other there's the election process for who can become Lord Mayor of the City of London. ;) In most parts of the country the "Worshipful Society of Apothecaries" plays very little part in local governance... Here's another video from CGP Grey that explains it rather well:- [this video] ...and when did all this start? No body knows. It's so old there are no records.

Recommends rjmunro · 2023-03 · on “Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London”

There's a great video by CGP Grey about it here: [LINK] , and a follow up about how they elect their government: [this video]

Cites fennecfoxen · 2015-09 · on “Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules”

In programming terms: namespacing. You have a set of activities which people do. You have validations on those activities. To determine whether a working arrangement is legal, all validations must pass. The UK has one set of validations. The EU has another. Some of them check the same things. Both the EU and UK validations make use of abstractions. One of these abstractions they reference is a particular symbol named 'work'. However, the symbol for 'work' is not defined in a common namespace or dictionary, but is instead private to each ruleset. Therefore if the EU court rules that 'work' must be defined a certain way for the purposes of EU regulations, it does not affect the UK regulations.