London

Capital city of the UK

London (City)
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London' is the capital city of the United Kingdom.

Headquarters

London hosts a lot of organisations' headquarters, as well as private meetings such as Le Cercle.

Pollution

Pollution is London is estimated to kill perhaps 9,000 people/year.

Militarization

After the 2016 Berlin Truck Attack, plans were announced to spend £5 million on a "ring of steel" around a section of the City of London, featuring bollards and checkpoints.

In August 2016, Bernard Hogan-Howe announced an expansion of "counter terrorist" police - which the Daily Mail described as "awesomely armed (and masked)". Hogan-Howe said that "In some of our big iconic locations, we've already got armed patrols - if you look at Parliament, Downing Street - so it's not entirely new. I think people understand that where you are going to have people as enemies who've got guns, we've got to have guns."

 

Events

Event	Description
1984 Libyan Embassy Siege
1994 London Israeli Embassy attack	Two car bombs in London, one in front of the Israeli embassy; one next to a building occupied by Jewish organisations. It was blamed on Palestinians, but MI5 whistleblowers have claimed an MI5 investigation concluded that Mossad were behind the attacks.
2005 London bombings	A series of coordinated attacks on London's public transport system during the morning rush hour, allegedly carried out by four Muslim suicide bombers.
2006 Counter Terror World Summit
2017 Westminster attack	A combined vehicle assault and stabbing at an iconic London location
Cold War Then and Now?	A free conference that appears to have been part of a broader campaign by the Institute for Statecraft to promote Cold War 2.0.
Diana Spencer/Inquest	The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Grenfell Tower fire
Gunpowder Plot
Hyde Park bombing
Iraq Inquiry	"The point of the delay is to give the impression Chilcot has been absolutely painstaking and therefore the bucket of whitewash he will throw cannot be hiding anything. Do not be fooled." (Craig Murray)
June 2017 London attack
Le Cercle/1999 (London)
Le Cercle/2013 (London)
Le Cercle/2014 (London)	Dates include June 20 but are uncertain
Leytonstone tube station attack
Operation Crevice	A raid launched in the UK on the so-called "fertiliser bomb plotters".
Regent's Park bombing	A 1982 London bombing ascribed but never proved to be the work of the Provisional IRA.
Tackling Tools of Malign Influence	Integrity Initiative conference about "Russian Propaganda"

 

Groups Headquartered Here

A Group Headquartered Here	Description
Airwars
Amnesty International
Anti-Slavery International
ArmorGroup	One of the largest private security firms operating in Iraq
Association of Chief Police Officers
Astutus Intelligence	A UK limited company started in 2015 by two Institute for Statecraft directors and a third man. Dissolved in 2019.
BAE Systems	A global arms company, with interests also in civilian avionics and engineering. Its subsidiaries are also involved in providing intelligence, personnel and logistics support to US/UK military.
BBC	A state propaganda apparatus disguised as a quasi-autonomous public service corporation.
BP
Balli Group Plc	A privately held company with a subsidiary, Balli Aviation that in 2010 pleaded guilty to charges of illegally exporting Boeing aircraft to Iran, in breach of sanctions.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International	The "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International", as some nicknamed it, was a bank set up to facilitate large scale, global money laundering, mainly to support a range of black operations by intelligence agencies.
Bank of England
Barclays Bank
Bell Pottinger	Received $500 million from the US DOD to create a range of propaganda, including fake Al-Qaeda videos
Black Cube	Spooky Israeli business intelligence agency
Board of Deputies of British Jews
British Council	The British government's cultural propaganda body.
British Petroleum
British Satellite Broadcasting	A London based satellite television company
British-American Tobacco
Cabinet Office
Cambridge Analytica	A big data mining company
Campaign Against Antisemitism
Carlton Club
Carlton Television
Centre for Policy Studies
Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies
Chartered Management Institute
Chatham House
Coalition for Peace Through Security	A spooky UK front group to try to oppose CND.
Commonwealth of Nations
Conservative Party
Control Risks	A British private security company.
Council of Foreign Bondholders
Crown Prosecution Service	The principal public prosecuting authority, a non-ministerial UK government department that conducts (almost) all criminal prosecutions in England and Wales.
De Beers
Department for Communities and Local Government
Department for Transport
Department of Trade and Industry
ESCP Europe	Private business school
Equilibrium Gulf Limited
Fabian Society
Foreign Desk Ltd
Forum World Features	A London based CIA propaganda operation which operated as a professional news service from 1965 to 1975.
Future Of Russia Foundation	Largely UK company with a remarkable assortment of directors
General Medical Council	A public body with statutory underpinnings that maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the UK
GlaxoSmithKline
Green Party of England and Wales
HM Customs
HSBC
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Jobs here

Event	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Josh Arnold-Foster	Senior Adviser	2007		"Provide advice on political and governmental defence and security policy development to a range of clients in the defence and aerospace sector"
Hamzah Behbehani	Banker	1992	1992	Middle East Sales
Jeremy Newmark	Chairman	January 2006	October 2013
Ella Rose	Public Affairs Officer	September 2015	August 2016
Ella Rose	President	June 2014	June 2015
Elaine Birch Ruffell	Senior Investigative Officer	December 1991	June 2001	"Responsible for identifying & containing threats to sources, staff & operations; and assessment of security clearances"
Elaine Birch Ruffell	Senior Operational Officer & Analyst	June 2001	July 2003	"Led assessment & disruption of narcotic trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe."
Elaine Birch Ruffell	Head of Staff Development & Training	July 2003	May 2006
Stephen Silverman	Director of Investigations and Enforcement	June 2015		Trawling social, printed and broadcast media for evidence of Antisemitism and coordinating 'enforcement' action against those deemed guilty of it.