Londonski glaz or London Eye
There was a time when the River Thames was an open sewer. Contemporary diarists tell how the stench was great that it was impossible to walk by the side of the river and not choke. Today, the pollution has a different origin and it doesn’t smell. The “laundromat” of “Londongrad” processes the huge amount of Russian money sloshing around the capital and has turned it into a thief’s paradise, corrupting anything and everything it touches. In the (anonymous) words of one Russian financier, “In London money rules everything. Anyone and anything can be bought”. In 2002 the Blair government brought...