The super-rich have done what protesters never could: taken over the US embassy in London

In its new guise as a luxury hotel, the building - like so many others in London - will become a monument to the 1%, and their reluctance to pay taxes Until seven years ago, one of the key centres of American power in Europe was a few minutes' walk from the consumer frenzy of Oxford Street in London. Reassuring or enraging, depending on your view of American hegemony, for more than half a century the enormous US embassy, by far the largest in the capital, provided diplomatic, immigration and int...