02156cam a2200325 i 4500 567531975 TxAuBib 20220816120000.0 220308s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022000897 9781250281920 HRD 28.99 125028192X HRD 28.99 TxAuBib rda Bullough, Oliver, 1977-, author Butler to the world. Butler to the world [BOOK] : how Britain helps the world's worst people launder money, commit crimes, and get away with anything / Oliver Bullough. First U.S. edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. 278 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index. The butler business -- Sun, sand, canal -- Practical people -- Shell shock -- Rock solid -- The Scottish laundromat -- Down the tubes -- Giving evidence -- "Justice" -- The end? The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's twentieth century, the moment when the once-superpower was bullied into retreat. "Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role," said Dean Acherson, a former US secretary of state. Acheson's line has entered into the canon of great quotations: but it was wrong. Britain had already found a role. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet. Butler to the World reveals how Britain came to assume its role as the center of the offshore economy. Written polemically, but studded with witty references to the butlers of popular fiction, it demonstrates how so many elements of modern Britain have been put at the service of the world's oligarchs. Provided by publisher. 20220816. Money laundering Great Britain. Finance Moral and ethical aspects Great Britain. International crimes Great Britain. Great Britain Foreign economic relations.