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An excerpt from Serious Money: walking plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles Quant seems apprehensive as he arrives at the trendy east London Shoreditch bar, Looking Glass, where I am waiting, perched on a bar stool. “Nothing good can come of this,” he says gloomily, as he calculates the banker-bas...
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Caroline is an urban explorer and Honorary Professor, Geography, Queen Mary University of London, author of Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money is Remaking Urban Britain (Hurst 2026), Serious Money: Walking …
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