Oliver Bullough

The investigative journalist and Moneyland author Oliver Bullough takes us on a journey to analyse Britain’s relationship to the world.

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.

Take a walk on the dark side of globalisation, from grasping bankers to opportunistic lawyers and feckless MPs, as Oliver Bullough drills down to the root of the malaise that’s rotting the UK system.