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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: How Britain Embraced the Super-Rich

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Why is Britain so accommodating to the super-rich? Oliver Bullough, author of Butler to the World talks to Ahir Shah to discuss how our nation came to assist kleptocrats to the extent we see today. As question marks over oligarchs’ riches hit the headlines, we look at how we got here. “There is this deeply ingrained service industry that helps anyone with money do anything.”  “Whoever they are, if they’ve got money, we’ll take their money and help them solve their problems.” “We don’t stop people doing things, we help people do things.”  “The problem isn’t Russian money, it’s money. And if it wasn’t Russian money it would be someone else’s money.”  https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Ahir Shah. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I'm Ahir Shah. The sanctions and financial measures taken against Russia following Vladimir Putin's

1:15.6

invasion of Ukraine have once again shone a light on Britain's role in the world of shady global finance,

1:21.6

where seemingly anything can be done if the price is right.

1:25.1

The news is full of discussion of ill-gotten gains washed in the laundromat of London grad, but how did all

1:29.8

of this come about?

1:31.8

Investigative journalist Oliver Bullow, best-selling author of

1:34.0

Moneyland, explores questions like these in his new book Butler to the World,

1:37.6

the story of how Britain came to serve the world's oligarchs, gangsters and

1:41.2

kleptocrats. Oliver, welcome to the bunker.

1:43.5

Thanks very much for having me.

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