Butler to the World: The book the oligarchs don’t want you to read - how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals

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But behind the scenes, there is an entirely different country, one which—in a career of writing about corruption, money laundering, and financial crime—I have gradually come to glimpse, understand, and grow alarmed by. There is nothing wrong with this per se, but personally I would have preferred a more evaluative or analytical approach. BTTW explores five different ways that Britain, since the 1950s, has innovated in and promoted either international money laundering or business with large negative externalities.

When not working, he likes watching rugby, cooking pizzas, swimming in the river and walking in the hills. I'm glad I discovered Oliver as a guest on a favourite podcast as his coverage of this eye opening topic is comprehensive and the writing entertaining. This is an absolute must-read for everyone who wants to understand Britain's crucial role in the global dirty money crisis. In sum, “Britain has essentially outsourced responsibility for stopping money laundering to the money launderers, and is failing to stop dirty money as a result.To głęboko przygnębiająca analiza historii gospodarczej Wielkiej Brytanii, która stręczy się najbrudniejszymi pieniędzmi świata. The term 'timely' is used all too often in the media, but there really isn't a more timely book than Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World . But every chapter steps it up a notch or ten, as the UK and its former colonies engage in a race to the bottom of morality.

Eurodollar trading allows vast pools of money to transit all over the world, instantly, and the taxman can’t touch them, no matter where they land – or they just change labels and move on again.The Biden administration is putting corruption at the heart of its foreign policy, and that means it needs to confront Britain's role as the foremost enabler of financial crime and ill behavior. Eventually, in response to his interlocutor’s bafflement, he blurted: “We’re not a policeman, like you guys, we’re a butler, the butler to the world… If someone is rich, whether they are Chinese or Russian or whatever, and they need something done, or something hidden, or something bought, then Britain sorts that out for them… – that’s what a butler does. Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role," said Dean Acherson, a former US secretary of state. The City, London’s financial hub, “must be protected at all costs”, no matter how many millions of lives are shattered elsewhere around the world.