In this episode, I review the Waterstone Piccadilly event featuring Oliver Bullough in conversation with Serena Kutchinsky where he talks about his new book: 'Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals - drawing connections with the Suez Canal crisis as the origin of the financial industry which later came to become attractive for oligarchs to move their money.
Using Oliver's point as a launching pad, I talk about related news like trends in the wider finance industry, the Ukraine v Russia war, ex-Chelsea owner Abramovich, metaphors in popular culture (Ask Jeeves as a metaphor for Butlerism), the breakdown of Empire, the Middle East and offshore accounts.
