The Spider's Web: A Tax Haven in the Heart of Britain
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire, is a documentary, produced by John Christensen (co-founder of the Tax Justice Network) and directed by Michael Oswald, which shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power.
At the demise of empire, the City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands.