Wade through all the jargon and word salad in the new 12-page mission statement and you might think you’d stumbled across a Green Party manifesto or a blog by Greta Thunberg.
It talks of ‘proudly cross-cutting strategic ambitions of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Climate Action’. There is a lot about ‘justice’ – climate, racial, social and economic justice, that is.
Yet this is a document issued by a 700-year-old City of London charity with a very specific role: to maintain all the Square Mile’s non-rail bridges over the River Thames. These include one of Britain’s most famous landmarks, Tower Bridge. And,
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