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Article was removed - but google is all-seeing: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/07/tech-firms-belong-o

• camillomiller 13y ago
  Well, I guess some editor's being grilled for letting this paragraph pass through. >Maybe not one as hot as Silicon Valley, but a least something to add much-needed diversity to the capital's industrial base – which presently consists largely of companies that launder war criminals' money, and companies that exchange this laundered money for empty luxury flats. While one can agree, Doctorow's sarcasm isn't clear and that sounds like a pretty unsubstantiated claim, even by the guardian's admirably liberal standards.
  • mherdeg 13y ago
    That sentence is still present in today's published version of this article, http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/10/slow-death-of-silicon-roundabout http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/10/slow-death-of-... .
    • camillomiller 13y ago
      That's a good thing. Still wondering why it was pulled, then