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Lots of good engineering talent in the UK - all the good F1 teams are based in the UK for example. The UK has always been a merchant, trading economy - partly

by mhh__ 3y ago

Lots of good engineering talent in the UK - all the good F1 teams are based in the UK for example. The UK has always been a merchant, trading economy - partly why Brexit was so stupid regardless of the EU's flaws, but nonetheless London is still an extremely attractive legal proposition and so on.

rchaud 3y ago
> London is still an extremely attractive legal proposition and so on Yes, the libel laws have been especially helpful in allowing despots and oligarchs to move their wealth into the country and build contacts with No. 10 while suing journalists reporting on it. Chelsea FC, major football club, was owned by a Putin pal for 20 years. He was forced to sell only in 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine. Prigozhin, Wagner CEO, was able to hire a UK law firm to sue a journalist for reporting on his link to Wagner. This was after sanctions were placed on him by the UK government [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jan/31/russia-ukraine-war-reveals-englands-draconian-libel-laws-says-lawyer https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jan/31/russia-ukraine-w...