Alexandra Bruce – This is the most important film that I’ve seen in years and it bears several viewings. It is deeply instructive and revelatory of the foundation of almost all of the corruption that pervades our world today, which is rarely, if ever discussed in this forthright manner.
‘The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire’ was self-financed by Michael Oswald for £4,000 but it has a much higher quality of information than any documentary about finance that you will ever see on TV. Oswald was the creator of the brilliant 2012 film, which I ran on this site, ‘97% Owned.‘
For 300 years, the British Empire was the largest the world has ever known but after World War II, it all began to fall apart. As the British elites saw their wealth, privileges and Empire disintegrate, they began to search for a new role in a changing world – and they found one in finance.