The Spider’s Web: Documentary on how Britain lost its geographic empire, but created a shadow global financial empire.
The British Empire, which spread across the globe between the 17th-20th centuries came crashing down after WW2, but the beating heart (or perhaps the brain) of that Empire, the City of London, survived and re-invented itself as a different sort of financial superpower. The City “manages” many of the world’s major off-shore tax havens, which … Read more