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Butler to the World

Oliver Bullough
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      A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN:THE TIMES · SUNDAY TIMES · ECONOMISTDAILY MAIL · DAILY MIRROR · NEW YORKER · SPECTATORPROSPECT · WATERSTONES · IRISH TIMES LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 PRESENTER OF THE BBC RADIO 4 SERIES 'HOW TO STEAL A TRILLION''Brilliant'Marina Hyde, Guardian'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best'Peter Pomerantsev'Horribly brilliant'James O'BrienHow did Britain become the servant of the world's most powerful and corrupt men?From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to enabling Gibraltar to become an offshore gambling haven, meet Butler Britain...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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Oliver Bullough EAN: 9781788165877 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 562 g HEIGHT: 238 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Profile Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-10 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity WIDTH: 158 cm SPINE:

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      United Kingdom, Great Britain, Society and culture: general, Economics

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      Oliver Bullough is the author of the financial expose Moneyland, a Sunday Times bestseller, and two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ.@OliverBullough
      A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN:THE TIMES · SUNDAY TIMES · ECONOMISTDAILY MAIL · DAILY MIRROR · NEW YORKER · SPECTATORPROSPECT · WATERSTONES · IRISH TIMES LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 PRESENTER OF THE BBC RADIO 4 SERIES 'HOW TO STEAL A TRILLION''Brilliant'Marina Hyde, Guardian'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best'Peter Pomerantsev'Horribly brilliant'James O'BrienHow did Britain become the servant of the world's most powerful and corrupt men?From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to enabling Gibraltar to become an offshore gambling haven, meet Butler Britain...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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Oliver Bullough EAN: 9781788165877 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 562 g HEIGHT: 238 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Profile Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-10 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity WIDTH: 158 cm SPINE:

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      United Kingdom, Great Britain, Society and culture: general, Economics

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      Oliver Bullough is the author of the financial expose Moneyland, a Sunday Times bestseller, and two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ.@OliverBullough

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