In your book, you refer repeatedly to the united kingdom as the butler to the world. What do you mean? What are you saying there? So this particular metaphor derives from a conversation i had with an american academic called andrew a few years ago. And he came here, and every time he asked me about, we know, what's the equivalent of the southern district of new york? And i' have to say, why we don't? We don't have that. He eventually stopped him and said, look, we don't have any of those things here, united states. You're the policeman of the world, right? You? The kind of guy who
Oligarchs from Russia and beyond stash their cash in British banks, which play a central role in the global offshore economy.
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