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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It has come to the point where if you are rich enough, you can bring a criminal case yourself in England, because the police can’t afford it.

He dates the shift to the Suez crisis in 1956, the year that Britain’s imperial apparatus finally collapsed, and the establishment cast around for another source of wealth to keep it in the style to which it had long become accustomed. There have been cases where members of Parliament have (naively) thought they could introduce bills to regulate this known and obvious criminal activity.

It transcends any one jurisdiction and derives its power and its resilience from the fact it does not rely on any one place: if one jurisdiction becomes hostile, money effortlessly relocates to somewhere that isn’t. 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.

Bullough argues compellingly that though more anti-corruption funds and tougher enforcement are welcome, what is really needed is a change of philosophy: for principles to take precedence over the profits of a few. Urgent and essential reading…Bullough has drilled down to the root of the malaise that's rotting the UK system.

In Bullough’s enthralling book he charts just how London sought to find its place in a post-Suez Crisis world and in so doing opened the doors to dodgy money. If you're not up on your oligarchs, kleptocrats and millionaire scammers, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World will come as a major shock. Rozkwit hazardu i Gibraltar, który stał się bezpiecznym portem dla bezlitosnych spółek hazardowych żerujących na ludziach.

When not working, he likes watching rugby, cooking pizzas, swimming in the river and walking in the hills.

This is an absolute must-read for everyone who wants to understand Britain's crucial role in the global dirty money crisis…Bullough lifts the lid and explains in a very clear and intelligible way why and how Britain is facilitating illicit finance across the world. 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. Here's how summarizes what I just explained: "It operates as a gigantic loophole, undercutting other countries’ rules, massaging down tax rates, neutering regulations, laundering foreign criminals’ money.