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A bid for freedom

Woohoo, I do love a good helping of Schadenfreude, and to this end one of my favourite things is hearing about what happens to the fancy assets of criminals when they are taken away (both the assets and the criminals).  … Continue reading

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A nose for trouble

My usual watchwords for this blog are (in ascending order of emotion) “disappointment”, “indignation” and “outrage”.  But this week it is “awwwww”, because it’s all about a litter of cuddly, snuggly puppies.  Last week the Metropolitan Police’s Dog Training Establishment … Continue reading

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Great-grandpapa’s billions

Like many of you, I have been reading “Kleptopia” by investigative reporter Tom Burgis.  It’s both wonderfully well-written and terrifically depressing.  If there’s a British PM in the past twenty years who hasn’t been advising foreign kleptocrats on how to … Continue reading

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