Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

Today in London, I'm your host Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

For years, the punk group Pussy Riot have been Russia's loudest voices of dissent.

We check in again with one of the band's members learning how two of them escaped yet another

arrest with a daring plan to sneak out of Russia.

And in Britain today, it's all street parties and bunting for the platinum Jubilee.

It's 70 years that Queen Elizabeth II has been on the throne.

We look at the long history of royal Jubilee's and how they've reflected a changing British

society.

We'll stop though.

Welcome on board between Star Fairy Service between Double Tree Hilton and Canary Wharf

Pier.

So just down from my house, I can take a ferry across the Thames River to Canary Wharf,

which is one of London's financial centers.

The square mile is another, but the newer and decidedly more sky scrapery one is Canary

Wharf.

You can see HSBC, Deutsche Bank, you can see Credit Suisse, you can see all of the world's

major financial outlets, Fitzradings, the works.

Finance types are attracted to the capital's tax rates, its time zone and educated workforce,

but there's a lot more than just straightforward banking money here.

All these sky scrapers are set amid what used to be working docs.

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