Banking,  West Africa

Then and Now

Richard Littlejohn in 1994:

Does anyone really give a monkey’s about what happens in Rwanda? If the Mbongo tribe wants to wipe out the Mbingo tribe then as far as I am concerned that is entirely a matter for them.

Simon Jenkins in 2012:

[…]

This is planning in the age of Barclays, an oligarchy of wealth, a financial fanaticism every bit as selfish and destructive as the religious fanaticism of Timbuktu. But there is a difference. Timbuktu’s shrines can and surely will be rebuilt. The Shard has slashed the face of London for ever.

[…]

What a cockweasel.

Hat-tip Hasan P in the comments.