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Butler to the world : how Britain helps the world's worst people launder money, commit crimes, and get away with anything / Oliver Bullough.

by Bullough, Oliver, 1977-

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St. Martin's Press, 2022.

070.449332 B938b

Money laundering -- Great Britain.

Finance -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain.

International crimes -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations.

9781250281920 (hc.)

278 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.

"In his forceful follow-up to 'Moneyland,' Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the centre of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world. The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain’s twentieth century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, ‘Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.’ But the funny thing was, Britain had already found a role. It even had the costume. The leaders of the world just hadn’t noticed it yet. Butler to the World reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. We pride ourselves on values of fair play and the rule of law, but few countries do more to frustrate global anti- corruption efforts. We are now a nation of Jeeveses, snobbish enablers for rich halfwits of considerably less charm than Bertie Wooster. It doesn’t have to be that way."--From publisher.

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