i mean, the sort of material corelative of this is how much of london is owned by russia which is a fact -- or russians -- which changes british life. but it's very hard to kind of get your mind around it. the second thing i think is it's hard for any country to imagine that certain kind of intimate forms of politics are actually subject to external intervention. the british, you know, as they always -- i mean, i get into debates with them all the time, and they'll say things like we've had a democracy for the longest time. yes. that's why you're vulnerable, because you couldn't imagine that it could happen, you know? you say magna carta as though that's going to ward off twitter. [laughter] but it doesn't. i mean, i've tried et e, right? -- it, right? i get up in the morning, and i paint a star and burp it and i say -- and i burn it and i say magna carta, it doesn't stop twitter. [laughter] i don't actually do that. [laughter] i think it's the very sense that this is intimate and this is ours, right, that made them vulnerable. and then, of course, now the brexit vote is not the most imp