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The Spectator's Notes

The Spectator’s Notes

15 July 2017

9:00 AM

15 July 2017

9:00 AM

For some time now, banks have wielded hamfistedly the concept of the ‘politically exposed person’. They have withdrawn bank accounts from — or refused them to — not only kleptocrats from crazy dictatorships but also blameless citizens of parliamentary democracies like our own. Now, I gather, they have started to persecute the fringes of the British royal family.

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