{"product_id":"chums-by-simon-kuper-9781788167390","title":"Chums","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller and \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePower. Privilege. Parties.\u003cbr\u003e It's a very small world at the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cq\u003eBrilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s\u003c\/q\u003e - James O'Brien\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cq\u003eA searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters\u003c\/q\u003e - Matthew Parris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cq\u003eA sparkling firework of a book\u003c\/q\u003e - Lynn Barber, \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cq\u003eExquisite and depressing in equal measure\u003c\/q\u003e - Matthew Syed, \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In \u003cem\u003eChums\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529892253932,"sku":"9781788167390","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18202943482824.jpg?v=1749237388","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/chums-by-simon-kuper-9781788167390","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}