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History might have the odd lesson or two, notably 18th Century Europe. In Britain one can think of the membership of the two Houses of Parliament in relation to the penal code at the time. Near sixty years ago at LSE I was suggesting that some attention might be given to flows of bullion in relation to the nature of the elite in this period. Follow the money, so to speak. You have a problem, in that to really identity the Ultras you have to know your way around the tax havens and related financial systems. But they operate on a firm secrecy basis and the people who do know are not academics or their immediate connections.
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