In the government's plans for the juily, you can see signs of authentic strain of britishness. Parliament has also passed an order to extend licensing hours in pubs, clubs and bars until one a m. And how do you plan to be celebrating that? Doubtless getting heroically, patriotically drunk.
Britain’s capital is packed with foreign capital, in particular the Russian kind. We ask what it is about London that attracts—and protects—the oligarchs. We check in again with Lusya Shtein of the anti-Putin punk-rock group Pussy Riot about her daring escape from Russia. And amid celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year tenure, we reflect on royal jubilees through history.
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