Oops!

I seem to have fooled myself with my post about the Mayor of London last Thursday. My title of "Has he got a cat?" was a reference to Dick Whittington, but of course he was Lord Mayor of London, which is a completely different office from that of Mayor. It's a matter of constant confusion, but the City of London (capital C) is a different animal to the city of London (small c).  The City is the oldest part of London and the Lord Mayor is the head of its local authority, the City of London Corporation. What we tend to refer to as the city of London is more properly referred to as Greater London and it is this that the Mayor is leader of. Sorry about that.