Chums

Now with a new chapter on the end of the chumocracy era - and Oxford's upcoming elite for 2050.<BR><BR>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022<BR><BR>A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF 2023<BR><BR>Power. Privilege. Parties.<BR>It's a very small world at the top.<BR><BR>'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s' James O'Brien<BR><BR>'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters' Matthew Parris<BR><BR>'A sparkling firework of a book' Lynn Barber, Spectator<BR><BR>'Exquisite and depressing in equal measure' Matthew Syed, Sunday Times<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Thirteen of the seventeen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford University. 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. <BR><BR>A damning look at the university clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look at our democracy forever.

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