Last night was the annual meeting where the new mayor is installed. The concept always reminds me of Dr Who. It’s still the mayor but the face and manner is quite different. Last night we swapped the Hartnellesque Cllr Marshall for the Troughton esque Brian Coleman. Coleman is a great lover of the procedure and pageantry (bling) of the mayoralty which in Barnet stretches all the way back to err 1965, not even as old as Dr who which pre-dates it by two years. The costumes worn for the night …