Movie of the Week
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
March 17, 2025
“This documentary isn’t like any fiction film that Hollywood has ever produced, which goes to show you that real life is far more sinister and corrupt than anything that a screenwriter can imagine.”
~ Review of The Spider’s Web
Movie of the Week
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire is one of the films we most often recommend at the Solari Report. Directed by Michael Oswald and produced by Oswald and investigative economist John Christensen, the 78-minute documentary dissects the “web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions” created by City of London financial interests to “capture wealth from across the globe and hide it behind obscure financial structures.”
As described in the synopsis,
“Spider’s Web reveals how in the world of international finance, corruption and secrecy have prevailed over regulation and transparency, and the UK is right at the heart of this.”
In a world rife with assaults on transparency—FASAB-56’s engineering of secret books for the U.S. government and the Trump II push to further outsource government functions to FOIA-immune private contractors are two examples that spring to mind—the topic of financial secrecy unfortunately never grows stale.
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