@KitKlarenberg @richimedhurst A heartland of freemasonry power, too. 40 years ago, that might mean, for example, moving a tenacious, honest member of the COLP Fraud Squad to a desk job in a rough precinct to cool his heels a while. "We don't want the gold market going to the Swiss, now, do we, Mr. Routledge?"
@timparrique @AimeTim 1/2 Forty years ago, investigating a white hot trail of systemic, criminal connivance at stratospheric levels of international finance, the UK's Official Secrets Act shut me down. Then again, in complete defeat, my initiation: I'd seen the truest face of global political economy.
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Copy of two tweets: “Who will police the police?” Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? #juvenal I can answer that question. No one. My first career? Journalism, with a specialist interest in oversight of the international financial system. 2/2 “Notes and References 10. Nick Routledge, ‘How The Bank of England Failed The JMB Test’, Euromoney, February 1985, pp. 49–56. Google Scholar”