Patrick Radden Keefe’s obituary for Britain
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Who could turn this scene down? We’re at Riverwalk, 161 Millbank, London SW1 – a rippling, attention-seeking luxury apartment block in Pimlico, where units sell for between £2,100,000 and £4,850,000. Inside, on the fifth floor, is one goon, one chancer and one naïf; the career gangster Verinder Sharma, the bankrupt bounder Akbar Shamji, and the 19-year-old fabulist Zac Brettler. They are talking, and drinking, and there is threat in the air. Shamji leaves, and is slaloming drunkenly around nearb
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