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Offering both a history of British dirty money and exploring the current vulnerabilities in the system, this book demonstrates the utter failure of the government to take action. In Britain,” Bullough argues, “butlering is almost invariably regarded as a source of jobs and wealth because it is seen from the butler’s perspective rather than that of their clients’ or their victims’… It makes a good comedy when Jeeves outsmarts the village bobby or Bertie Wooster gets away with a scam because his chum is the local magistrate, but this is not the way to run a financial system.

These are civil servants like Russian Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov, who can somehow afford to give his 21 year old daughter (he is a bigamist with at least two families) her first apartment, a four million pound flat in the fashionable west end. Jego usługi są atrakcyjne dla uchylających się od płacenia podatków, ukrywających swoje miliardy, dla kumpli najgorszych dyktatorów świata, oligarchów, kleptokratów i kombinatorów. From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to enabling Gibraltar to become an offshore gambling haven, meet Butler Britain. Kamerdyner pracuje nie tylko dla przestępców, ale dla każdego, kto jest wystarczająco bogaty, by móc skorzystać z jego usług. The UK virtually invented shadow banking with some almost unnoticed dodgy financial innovations in the 1950s, and even up to present day the government has ignored the problem and defanged its own regulators and justice system to better appeal to "clients".

This is an absolute must-read for everyone who wants to understand Britain's crucial role in the global dirty money crisis. It took even Bullough a while, though, to nail the exact bent-double relationship that many among the elite of this country’s lawmakers and bankers and lawyers and accountants have adopted toward this global kleptocracy. I found the strongest parts to be the criticism (and warning) about private prosecutions, and the chapter about Gibraltar and the gambling industry, and the book is worth reading for them alone. It both horrified and fascinated me, and I resolved to find out as much as I could about Chechnya and the North Caucasus, to try to understand the roots of the conflict that had burst so unexpectedly into my life.Further, this book’s content is not aligned with its tagline on “how Britain helped” persons A, B, C. 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 . The money of the world flows directly to them, unimpeded by bureaucracy, regulation or financial restrictions.

Sometimes, the closeness leads the two countries into terrible mistakes, as with the Iraq War; sometimes, as with defeating the Nazis or filming This Is Spinal Tap, the exchange leads to something magnificent.Because of the shared language, Americans and Brits often think their countries are more similar than they actually are, which is something I am as guilty of as anyone. They had no interest in whether Eastern European money launderers could or could not do business, but they did want investments to be even more profitable than they already were.