Good Chaps How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It
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Biographical note
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.At a time when democracy feels threatened, Simon Kuper is fighting hard for a better vision of politics - he is brutally honest about our problems but never loses hope that we can build a better democracy
- Rory Stewart, co-host of The Rest is Politics,
Exposes the corruption permeating UK politics and the death of the so-called "good chap"
- 'Best summer books of 2024', Financial Times
An intelligible, compelling and enraging narrative ... how the Good Chaps get away with it
- Will Dunn, New Statesman
Perfectly timed as a guide to what the new government should do, Simon Kuper's follow-up to the superb Chums is a snappy, incisive account of the debasement of British politics by money and influence.
- Matthew D'Ancona, New European
Simon Kuper has written a timely and compelling reminder to leaders of all political parties that, while living standards matter most to voters, Britain desperately need to improve and restore standards in public life too
- Tom Baldwin, author, Keir Starmer: The Biography
A document of our time
Sunday Times
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, Spectator
Exquisite and depressing in equal measure
- Matthew Syed, Sunday Times
This is the best detailed but lucid account I have read of how corruption surged in the UK
- Patrick Cockburn, i Paper
The book to read on corruption in the UK
- Patrick Cockburn, i Paper