• Butler to the World

  • The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
  • By: Oliver Bullough
  • Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
  • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (85 ratings)

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Butler to the World

By: Oliver Bullough
Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
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2022 New Yorker Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2022 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, Long-listed

This program is read by the author.

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.

The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's twentieth century, the moment when the once-superpower was bullied into retreat. "Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role," said Dean Acherson, a former US secretary of state. Acheson's line has entered into the canon of great quotations: but it was wrong. Britain had already found a role. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet.

Butler to the World reveals how Britain came to assume its role as the center of the offshore economy. Written polemically, but studded with witty references to the butlers of popular fiction, it demonstrates how so many elements of modern Britain have been put at the service of the world's oligarchs.

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. This audiobook lays bare how London has deliberately undercut U.S. regulations for decades, and calls into question the extent to which Britain can be considered a reliable ally.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Oliver Bullough (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

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Extraordinary

A great follow-up to Moneyland from the same author. Very depressing about how corrupt the world is and the the UK is at the heart of it. However very well researched and convincing with good arguments about why this should be stopped.

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Changed My World View

Amazing narrative spanning the globe and showing how ignoble the British elite have been to maintain their position. Entertaining and compelling.

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Excellent, surprising and easy to read/listen to

Great disassembly of the biggest money laundering operation in the world: London, and the UK in general. Well worth a listen, and full of quite a few surprises. Author reading it makes it so much better too.

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An Entertaining Journey Around the British Business of “Butlering” to the Shady of the World

Well written. Well read. Time well spent. I would recommend to both business professionals and those who are unfamiliar with the world of finance.

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