Lord Mayor In Waiting Tim Hailes Uses Virtue Signalling In A Vain Attempt To Distract From Bad News About The Square Mile’s Historic Role In The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Those who check in with the propaganda being pumped out by the City of London Lie Machine will have noticed a press release last week about a Blue Plaque honouring Francis Barber being unveiled by Lord Mayor (in waiting) Tim Hailes and Michael Bundock* at Samuel Johnson’s former house. The press release states: The remarkable life of Francis Barber, the servant, friend, and heir to Dr Samuel Johnson, has been commemorated during a ceremony at the writer’s townhouse on Gough Square in Fleet Street Quarter… Barber, a West African man born into slavery in Jamaica, came to London as a child and lived at Dr Johnson’s house from 1752 to 1756, working there as his servant. Dr Johnson, who compiled the Dictionary of the English Language (1755), supported him and his family throughout his life, and helped secure his financial future. Most notably and controversially for the time, Dr Johnson named Barber as the sole heir and beneficiary of a Trust established in his will. Barber later became…