I'll be down on the barricades with you against the bog brush. As a city we need to remember we've contributed more to the world than things that were popular on telly in the 60s and 70s. Tells you a lot about what type of person is commissioning things.
The Murdoch press would do well to look at the washing of criminals, corporate carpet baggers and authoritarian dictatorships’ filthy ill gotten lucre by the so called gentlemen of the City of London. But they won’t as it’s far easier to blame Johnny Foreigner and some working class lads in an area they couldn’t care less about.
You should read Roberto Saviano’s Zero Zero Zero. He’s in hiding from the Camorra. A proper journalist.
Fully agree, This was briefly touched on in the recent dramatisation about the Brinks-Matt bullion robbery, it was well known that a lot of the money was invested in Spanish Property, as that was shown, but a few weeks later, after the series finished, the Mirror ran a brief feature about how it's "very extremely likely" that a large chunk of it also made its way back over here into the Shiny new sparkling Docklands redevelopment scheme. Naturally, they were extremely careful to make sure they never actually pointed the finger at any particular, bank, property developer or individual past or present. Also anybody who read the Guardian's feature in the "Panama Papers" would also be aware of such "due dilligence" of the money trail
I’ll have a look at that about Brink Matt thanks Baz. A book I want to read is called Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics by Michael Gillard. Another is Butler To The World by Oliver Bullough. As Lester Freamon says in The Wire, “all the pieces matter”.
I'll be down on the barricades with you against the bog brush. As a city we need to remember we've contributed more to the world than things that were popular on telly in the 60s and 70s. Tells you a lot about what type of person is commissioning things.
The Murdoch press would do well to look at the washing of criminals, corporate carpet baggers and authoritarian dictatorships’ filthy ill gotten lucre by the so called gentlemen of the City of London. But they won’t as it’s far easier to blame Johnny Foreigner and some working class lads in an area they couldn’t care less about.
You should read Roberto Saviano’s Zero Zero Zero. He’s in hiding from the Camorra. A proper journalist.
Fully agree, This was briefly touched on in the recent dramatisation about the Brinks-Matt bullion robbery, it was well known that a lot of the money was invested in Spanish Property, as that was shown, but a few weeks later, after the series finished, the Mirror ran a brief feature about how it's "very extremely likely" that a large chunk of it also made its way back over here into the Shiny new sparkling Docklands redevelopment scheme. Naturally, they were extremely careful to make sure they never actually pointed the finger at any particular, bank, property developer or individual past or present. Also anybody who read the Guardian's feature in the "Panama Papers" would also be aware of such "due dilligence" of the money trail
I’ll have a look at that about Brink Matt thanks Baz. A book I want to read is called Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics by Michael Gillard. Another is Butler To The World by Oliver Bullough. As Lester Freamon says in The Wire, “all the pieces matter”.