Graffiti praising Mir Hosein Mousavi, the thwarted presidential challenger, have been scrubbed off, leaving a huge officially sanctioned mural depicting the Statue of Liberty hurling rocks at cowering women and children.
Official figures in the first quarter of 2014 found a huge increase in sanctions against people reliant on ESA sickness benefit.
Putin has since become its most powerful patron, sanctioning huge grants and driving a three-wheeled Harley-Davidson as a Night Wolves outrider.
In one borough - Fylde - there was a huge swing in sanction rates, from 1.6% of claimants to 11% within the space of 10 months.
The select committee heard sharp criticism of the chancellor, George Osborne, from a leading thinktank for sanctioning huge tax giveaways that forced the government to impose deeper than expected cuts on vital welfare budgets and Whitehall spending.
This discrepancy has fostered the "fat cat" theory of inequality: greedy businessmen sanction huge salaries for each other at the expense of shareholders.Whichever explanation you choose for the signs of growing inequality, none of the changes seems transitory.
However, I am concerned by the huge disparities in sanctioned detection rate - where an allegation of rape has resulted in a charge or other court action - that exist between different boroughs.
Nor will Kroenke sanction huge increases in spending on players or wages, particularly given the increasing pressure on wages, explicitly stating that he wants to continue to run the club on the current "break even" model.
The new American owners, who saved a great club from the last American owners, have unquestionably lifted Liverpool's mood, spent partnership money to ballast the club, appointed Dalglish and sanctioned huge spending on players.
"What staff have seen is a huge pressure to sanction claimants as a result of government policy, so they are obviously worried that moving into in-work conditionality will affect them".
