Big beast of the jungle

It's a jungle out here, so truly I may just as well be in the office, but Ken signals me to find a few days and come out to join him, he is here in Zimbabwe on one of the overseas fact-finding visits which he sets up whenever he runs low on duty free cheroots, and now it seems he needs advice, or rather he has more advice than he requires but he wants mine.

I see quite a lot of Ken these days, he is a kinda rolypoly jokey guy in British politics who draws the short straw and becomes finance minister, only since it is the Brits they fit him out a tin box and call him Chancellor and this is all part of immemorial tradition, like a crisis for the pound.

His guy Steve tells me Ken is hooked on the City, meaning the end of London where the markets are, someone tells him this is a great export industry, tho’ when I first arrive the old hands put it kinda differently, Herbie, they tell me, we just shovel money around the world and hang onto what sticks to the shovel.

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