Anne Applebaum"The confiscation of a few yachts is no solution. What if, instead, we shut it all down?"
my pitch to fight kleptocracy, in the Financial Times
themes taken from AUTOCRACY INC
https://www.ft.com/content/0876ef7a-bf88-463e-b8ca-bd9b4a11665c
David Colquhoun on BlueskyWonderful piece by the excellent @anneapplebaum
"Just as the democratic world once built an international anti-communist alliance, so can the US and its allies build an international anti-corruption alliance, organised around the idea of transparency, accountability and fairness. This isn’t just a nice-sounding idea: it may be necessary for the preservation of liberal democracy, in the form that we know it."
https://www.ft.com/content/0876ef7a-bf88-463e-b8ca-bd9b4a11665c
"Just as the democratic world once built an international anti-communist alliance, so can the US and its allies build an international anti-corruption alliance, organised around the idea of transparency, accountability and fairness. This isn’t just a nice-sounding idea: it may be necessary for the preservation of liberal democracy, in the form that we know it."
https://www.ft.com/content/0876ef7a-bf88-463e-b8ca-bd9b4a11665c