Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It

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The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the rules and do the right thing. They're good chaps, after all. Yet Britain appears to have been taken over by bad chaps, and politics is awash with financial scandals, donors who have practically bought shares in political parties, and a shameless contempt for the rules.

Simon Kuper, author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Chums, exposes how corruption took control of public life, and asks: how can we get politicians to behave like good chaps again

Reviews

'Praise for Chums:
'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s' - James O'Brien

'An extraordinary book ... I got angrier and angrier and angrier as I read it' - Alastair Campbell

'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters' - Matthew Parris

'A sparkling firework of a book' - Lynn Barber

'Exquisite and depressing in equal measure' - Matthew Syed

Author Bio

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 Chums, Impossible City and The Happy Traitor.