• BRAVE, honest women Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Russian TV producer Marina Ovsyannikova offset the United Kingdom’s present image as butler to oligarchs and kleptocrats, and a reminder that the UK’s palatial country houses rose mainly from the laundering of colonial spoils (the slave trade, sugar and cotton) integral to the UK economy from 1700 onwards.

MIKE BOR
St George’s Fields, W2