George Lee

Aug 7, 2024 | the-fence.com | Andrew Murray |Richard Smyth |George Lee |Joe Bishop

A whistle-stop tour of London’s disappointing barons and the peers we could’ve had. Barons: we imagine them as rural land magnates, shagging the wives of their miserable villein tenantry or bullying King John into signing Magna Carta. Newsflash, House of Lords-heads. There are modern, urban barons too. Barons, indeed, who stalk the very streets of our capital. Plenty of opportunity there, you’d think, for maverick aristos with amusing names. Alas no: meet the real (and imagined) Barons of London.