"Power, Corruption & Lies". Christmas Day tour, 2025, with Ed Glinert

Calling all Londoners and festive visitors to the capital. Want to build up an appetite before Christmas dinner? Psyching yourself up before watching the King giving his speech, or before treating the family to a downloaded version of Top of the Pops 1973?

Then book onto New London Walks’ annual tour:

“Christmas Day in London – the Power, Corruption & Lies tour”.

The tour takes place on Thursday, the 25th of December 2025, which just happens to be Christmas Day this year, and starts at Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square at 10.30a.m. It lasts around 4 hours and we usually find a friendly cafe open, even though it’s Christmas, for a breather half way. We finish back at Nelson.

This is a walk around the corridors, okay the streets, of Westminster and Whitehall, the very centres of political intrigue, so that Ed Glinert, London’s most entertaining and informed historian and tour guide, can reveal the most fascinating, eye-opening and ridiculous stories, scandals and secrets – from where the monarch goes down into the nuclear bunker, to the secret tunnel that connects No. 10 to Buck Palace, to the tube station used by the Nazis to spy on MI6, and a host of similar tales that you always wanted to know about. This is all very topical, because after years of acting in the public’s interest, our politicians have suddenly started behaving strangely.

Ed Glinert has conducted more than a thousand tours of London, and written Penguin’s London Compendium (2003), the most important book on the capital this century; and Penguin’s East End Chronicles and West End Chronicles. He is a tour guide trained by the Institute of Tourist Guiding.

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