To get a better idea of how primitive moneylending works, you don't need to travel back in time
There are plenty of modern-day Shylocks remarkably close to home
And they don't need to be Jewish to suffer a similar fate to Shylock
This is Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow
It's actually where my grandmother used to live
And I think with its distinctive steel shuttering, it's one of the grimmest places in the whole of western Europe
In fact, average male life expectancy here is just 64, which is slightly worse than Bangladesh
That means that the average Shettlestonian doesn't actually live long enough to collect his state pension
You might think nobody would be mad enough to try and provide financial services here
But someone does