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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After it came out, though, a number of Russian friends objected that I had made the Russians into the villains. Rolls over the rock of dark money, tax dodging, and state-sanctioned criminal money laundering, thanks to some exceptional journalism by Bullough. If you like books where you learn a lot - which we certainly do - then we commend it to you wholeheartedly.

Much of the time the same bodies tasked with regulating professionals’ financial transactions are also charged with lobbying government on their behalf, while also relying on those same professionals’ membership fees to keep solvent. He identifies the start of this as the Suez Crisis in the 1950s which was, he argues, a sign of Britain’s waning influence in the world. Bullough is a compelling and expert guide to the newly-dug sewers flowing through the heart of our political, legal and financial establishment. 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. The rouble dropped when he was approached by an American academic and asked to explain what the British government did to protect the nation against money laundering.I travelled in a dozen countries to meet all the people I needed for the stories I wanted to tell, and wrote them down in Let Our Fame Be Great. From the murky origins of tax havens and gambling centres in the British Virgin Islands and Gibraltar to the influence of oligarchs in the British establishment, Butler to the World is the story of how we became a nation of Jeeveses - and how it doesn't have to be this way. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

This is why Bullough can say countries like the Caymans, the BVI and most of all the UK are busy exporting poverty and suffering, by importing and investing the ill-gotten gains of criminals. This is a serious topic, in demand of more attention, in the same vein as legal access and harmful identity politics.To była dla mnie o tyle interesująca lektura, że od kilkunastu lat związana jestem z Wielką Brytanią. In the first half of 2022 a huge amount of media conversation was being dedicated to how deeply influential Russian oligarchs had become in Britain, largely as a consequence of Putin's February invasion of the Ukraine.

With the brilliant concept of Britain as the butler, Bullough lifts the lid and explains in a very clear and intelligible way why and how Britain is facilitating illicit finance across the world. There was no concerted law enforcement effort against Chinese money laundering, I told him, so there was no investigator who could talk to him about it.If you have ever wondered quite why so many prime pieces of real estate in the ritziest areas appear to be unoccupied, this is the book for you . For more than 60 years our financial system has been corroded by greed - and has in turn corrupted our politics. Independent overseas territories a big part of this - they have autonomy to create tax havens but are linked to Britain to reap other associated benefits (British courts, the perceived security of assets I. He got some degree of justice, but the courts were astonishingly more worried about reputational damage to the profession than meting out justice.

The country continually finds ways to accept and launder dirty money, offer thieves not just citizenship, but honors, and racks up gigantic financial gains while aiding them to become established, if not sainted.There have been cases where members of Parliament have (naively) thought they could introduce bills to regulate this known and obvious criminal activity. In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world. Today, numerous firms continue to pop up in Scotland, using the same short list of addresses - private homes where the occupants set up these companies all day long.