Assembly Checkpoint, EdinburghFrom corrupt cartels to 'snakehead' smugglers, the journalist-cum-author presents a plain-talking breakdown of complex global illsWhen Misha Glenny ventured into cold-war Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s, wearing the Solidarity jumper his mum had knitted him, he used to smuggle banned books across the border, squirreling them away in corners of train compartments where even the most vig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM on August 21, 2018