The Spital Sermon is a long tradition of the City of London – a sermon preached by an Anglican bishop before the Lord Mayor of London and the assembled Aldermen and others. So we went in the Rolls to St Lawrence Jewry just beside the Guildhall and I did my best. The subject is ‘The Spread of Truth’ – not comfortable for churches or politicians or the financial sector or journalists or anybody really. And there was a lunch hosted by Dr Clare Gifford, the Lady Mayoress