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Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant to Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals
by Oliver Bullough
Profile Books, £20
THIS book exposes the role of successive British governments in aiding and abetting a huge range of criminal acts.
As Bullough writes: “It’s not just that Britain is not investigating the crooks, it’s helping them too.”
As he notes: “However bad other countries are, Britain has for decades been worse. It operates as a gigantic loophole, undercutting other countries’ rules, massaging down tax rates, neutering regulations, laundering foreign criminals’ money.”
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