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Band on bankers

THIS publication’s influence seems wider than we thought. Two years ago we reported on research into the world’s economic network, including a beautiful diagram depicting the 1318 transnational corporations at the core of the global economy (22 October 2011, p 8).

This month, we found the same diagram on posters on the London Underground, advertising Antiphon, the new album from Midlake – described by one reviewer as an “impeccably realised meld of bucolic 70s folk and radio-friendly soft rock”.…

Article amended on 1 January 1970

When this article was first published, it misspelled Robert Cailliau's name.

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