Bestselling author Oliver Bullough reveals the scandalous reality of Britain's new position in the world.

A very, very good book

I lay in bed, reading paragraph after paragraph out loud

Brilliant

A really engrossing and enraging read

Terrific ... pulled by a current of Tory indolence, Britain flounders in a sea of dirty money

Sizzlingly written

Razor-sharp

A polemical take on how the UK's post-imperial institutions - banks, law firms, public relations companies, schools and universities - rushed to serve the corrupt super-rich, laundering individuals' reputations and washing their dirty money so they can enlarge their fortunes still further.

Could a book ever be more timely? ... Highly readable

Unmissable

A terrifyingly good book

Highly readable... deserve[s] praise for going beyond moralising and pointing out how an industry geared to enabling the corrupt is not just unsavoury but can hurt a country's real economic prospects'

What's most apt about Bullough's butler analogy is the appearance of gray-flannel propriety, and the ways it can impart an aura of respectability to even the most disreputable fortune

Shockingly timely ... excellent

Grimly fascinating ... remarkable

It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... Butler to the World is both a brilliant and depressing blast at decades of malign financial cosiness and the politicians who let it happen ... It takes guts to write and publish a book like this ... Bullough doesn't sit back and drily condemn all this financial skulduggery, he goes to meet the people who helped create the conditions that allowed it to happen

An urgent account of Britain's history of welcoming corrupt capital ... Mr Bullough argues compellingly that though more anti-corruption funds and tougher enforcement are welcome, what is really needed is a change of philosophy: for principles to take precedence over the profits of a few

Butler to the World's main message - that Britain needs to clean up its act not just for its own good but for that of the world - rings all the louder because of current geopolitics ... it's a damning judgement, but one that Bullough ... is well-positioned to give

Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World shows where the chums and others have led us: to an underpowered, rather than superpowered, UK that's subservient to "tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals". What elevates this book, aside from its artful turns of phrase, is the depth of its reporting. This isn't just about Russian oligarchs in London-though they certainly feature-but legal, financial and cultural changes stretching back to the 1950s.

Uncommonly timely

I read Moneyland slack-jawed at the blatant techniques ... used to launder money ... Bullough is cynical, and his findings make depressing reading... but he's right that the whole system is built to facilitate the crooks, and takes the rest of us for mugs

Jaw-dropping ... Bullough has a gift for making complex financial information comprehensible and strives to leaven this depressing story with jokes and deft character sketches ... timely

Bullough does a great line in deft sketches of personalities

An essential exposé ... the pages reek of dirty money linked to Britain that Bullough has a nose for sniffing out ... impressive, pacy journalism that will leave you flabbergasted

Urgent and deeply reported

A monetary masterclass

The term 'timely' is used all too often in the media, but there really isn't a more timely book than Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World ... If you like books where you learn a lot - which we certainly do - then we commend it to you wholeheartedly.

A timely book that should provoke some soul searching among policymakers in the government and the City - and hopefully prompt some more action

Butler to the World helpfully freeze-frames ... an embarrassing state of affairs, with few signs of Britain's unprincipled eagerness diminishing ... why is the county's politico-financial elite, so convinced of Britain's brand values of honesty and trustworthiness, so open to helping find comfortable homes for the tainted wealth of oligarch, gangster and kleptocrat?

[A] Phenomenal book

A horribly brilliant account of just how much historical integrity Britain has sacrificed at the altar of dirty money. Bullough is a compelling and expert guide to the newly-dug sewers flowing through the heart of our political, legal and financial establishment

This is an absolute must-read for everyone who wants to understand Britain's crucial role in the global dirty money crisis. British institutions, our laws, our people and our failure to police effectively means - as Bullough demonstrates - that we are the servants to kleptocrats, money launderers and serious criminals. With the brilliant concept of Britain as the butler, Bullough lifts the lid and explains in a very clear and intelligible way why and how Britain is facilitating illicit finance across the world. The narrative is gripping, the analysis original and powerful and the detailed examples terrifying. This book will provide a powerful contribution to the important debate on the UK and dirty money

Oliver Bullough unsparingly reveals the devastating facts behind Britain's dirty financial secrets and moral guilt while directly challenging the UK to clean up its act. This book is a must-read for those who care about our reputation in the world today

Urgent and essential reading. From grasping bankers to opportunistic lawyers and feckless MPs, unable and unwilling to withstand the schemes of the global rich, Oliver Bullough has drilled down to the root of the malaise that's rotting the UK system. Beautifully written with quiet despairing humour, this is the defining story of our times

Not only a witty and well researched economic history of Britain's role as financial Butler to the world, this is also a savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best

If like me you've ever wondered what all those university graduate schemes were ultimately about, Bullough outlines it here... Timely and revealing

Riveting from cover to cover; a jaw-dropping and damning account that will make you sit up and re-evaluate what you think about the City, the UK and global finance

Anyone who cares about the future of this country should read this sizzlingly written and incendiary story of our national decline. For more than 60 years our financial system has been corroded by greed - and has in turn corrupted our politics. This book blows apart Britain's image for gentlemanly respectability and lays bare the real picture: ruthless greed disguised by hypocrisy, and tolerated because of wilful ignorance

The shocking revelation of how the old heart of an unscrupulous empire turned into a fawning servant to the global super-rich. The sooner more people realise this, the better

He doesn't mince his words, does Bullough ... If you have ever wondered quite why so many prime pieces of real estate in the ritziest areas appear to be unoccupied, this is the book for you ... Sizzlingly written, this is more than just a deeply troubling look at how Britain has been corrupted by greed and pimps itself out to the world's dirtiest money ... Read it... and be shocked.

Oliver Bullough is the author of the financial expose Moneyland, a Sunday Times bestseller, and two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ. @OliverBullough