“... Treasury, which effectively plundered their rents. A late 2000s effort by John Healey, then Gordon Brown’s housing minister, to offer councils a new housing deal – reconfiguring debt and letting councils finance their housing stock via rents – was crushed by George Osborne’s austerity regime in the 2010s. Meanwhile government resources that could have ...”

“... a tailored jacket and jeans, with a blue-edged pocket square in his breast pocket, a scarf and brown brogue boots. He was 47 but looked about 29. There was something studied about him – the Alexander McQueen scarf, the lawyerly punctilio – and I’d never met anyone who spoke so easily about such large sums of money. When I asked him the point of the ...”

“... from Marseille to Oran and come overland in the hope of obtaining a visa to Lisbon. Ugarte (Peter Lorre), a forger and procurer of documents, asks Rick to look after two sets of safe-conduct papers until his clients arrive. ‘You despise me, don’t you?’ he says to Rick. ‘You object to the kind of business I do, huh? But think of all those poor ...”