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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

As more money flowed offshore, societies around the globe began to feel the impact of the...

As more money flowed offshore, societies around the globe began to feel the impact of the offshore world

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As more money flowed offshore,
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societies around the globe began
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to feel the impact of the offshore world.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:58:43
Uploaded
Oct 30, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
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Movie Summary

How Britain transformed from an imperial power to a financial power.
- The reality is not what you believe. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:05
- The reality is not what you believe.
Your prime minister has the power to decide on the future - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:09
Your prime minister has the power to decide on the future
- We have country after country around the world - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:20
- We have country after country around the world
We have extreme cases like the hiding of tax evasion - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:19
We have extreme cases like the hiding of tax evasion
The anonymous ownership of properties across London, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
The anonymous ownership of properties across London,
Do we really think that any circumstances - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:15
Do we really think that any circumstances
Who wants their government to have people working for it, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:16
Who wants their government to have people working for it,
- We need the citizens to understand what is happening, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:16
- We need the citizens to understand what is happening,
Ordinary people are paying taxes. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:05
Ordinary people are paying taxes.
So this is inequality, and it is leading up to populism, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:19
So this is inequality, and it is leading up to populism,
- Back in the '60s and '70s, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:20
- Back in the '60s and '70s,
And if you fast forward to the present day, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
And if you fast forward to the present day,
The offshore system is the establishment. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:05
The offshore system is the establishment.
- [Narrator] Today, offshore is the way elites - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
- [Narrator] Today, offshore is the way elites
Tax evasion is the way business is done. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:05
Tax evasion is the way business is done.
- This kind of sophisticated cheating - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
- This kind of sophisticated cheating
We like to talk about the pinstripe infrastructure - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:11
We like to talk about the pinstripe infrastructure
(solemn music) - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
(solemn music)
It does not put bullets in their kneecaps, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
It does not put bullets in their kneecaps,
It deprives people of opportunities - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:12
It deprives people of opportunities