Butler to the World: How Britain became the
servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals Kindle Edition
by Oliver
Bullough (Author)
'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As
essential as Orwell at his best'
Peter
Pomerantsev
'Horribly brilliant'
James
O'Brien
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.
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