Publishing Mystery
To anyone puzzled by the unwillingness of ANY of our national press to publish a review of Chris Blackursts's excellent book on HSBC- "Too Big to Jail"-consider the following contrast. Oliver Bullough's equally excellent "Butler to the World" received a large number of generally admiring reviews. The book was placed in the front window of Waterstones and not relegated to the hardly-ever visited section "Banking". If you compare the 2 books they both expose the weaknesses of the global capitalist system. So what IS the difference?
Here's a clue-"systems" don't advertise in the national press. HSBC does. QED. The blackballing of Blackhurst and his book is a disgraceful threat to the "freedom" of the Press and each of the cowering newspaper bosses should be called out for their lily-livered behaviour
Author and Journalist
2 年Chris’s book is a great read. You put it down astonished at the blind-eyed greed of HSBC - and uneasy that beyond a fine equivalent to eight weeks profit that nobody has gone to jail for laundering El Chapo’s cash. Boss at the time, Stephen Green, went on to be a government minister and is now Lord Green, author of a book on ethical capitalism.
Driving the Revenue Revolution - Research Director - Office of Revenue at ISG
2 年Was shocked to discover that the concept and term of "white collar crime" wasn't even really a "thing" until Edwin Sutherland's 1939 eponymous speech. So it does not surprise me that financial crimes are still not taken seriously by the public; contrasted with the obsession with petty larceny.