Chums

How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

Chums
Simon Kuper
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Hardback
h220 x 142mm - 240pg
28 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781788167383
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' A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn' t. It matters' - Matthew Parris Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners. They aren' t just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them. Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this narrowest of talent pools - and the friendships and worldviews it created - shaped modern Britain. This is a searing critique of the British ruling class and its ' chumocracy' by the smartest commentator in journalism today.
' A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn' t. It matters' - Matthew Parris ' Praise for The Happy Traitor: Kuper provides a different and valuable perspective, humane and informative' - John Le Carre ' Truly enthralling . . . a deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character' - Philippe Sands ' The most comprehensive and insightful biography to date' - Ben Macintyre
Simon Kuper is an author and Financial Times journalist, born in Uganda and raised around the world. An Oxford graduate, he later attended Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. He has written for the Observer, The Times and Guardian, and is also the author of The Happy Traitor.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781788167383
Published: 28 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 220mm
Width: 142mm
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 360g
Pages: 240

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