Whenever there’s public uproar about offshore wealth – like the revelations in the Panama Papers – politicians are reluctant to take action. In episode three, Kojo discovers that the expansion of tax havens is no accident or oversight, but the result of decades of lobbying by powerful think tanks.

The City of London has become a facilitator of global wealth extraction, and offshore finance is now embedded in Britain’s political system. As Kojo finds out, the consequences are profound: rising inequality, hollowed-out cities, and a housing market increasingly detached from human need.


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