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Cargando... Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK (edición 2022)por Simon Kuper (Autor)
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... Kuper draws an intriguing comparison between the prewar and wartime Cambridge spies who were acting for the Soviet Union and the Oxford Brexiters. Putin most certainly wanted Brexit and the breakup of the European Union. Fortunately, the Ukraine crisis seems to be having a beneficent effect on the EU – certainly not what he wanted. While he admits his comparison between the Cambridge and Oxford sets isn't entirely fair, Kuper states: "Though both betrayed Britain's interests in the service of Moscow, the Brexiters did it by mistake." One can only hope, to quote the chorus in The Clouds, by Aristophanes: "Mark here how rarely it succeeds/To build our trust on guilty deeds."
Power. Privilege. Parties.It's a very small world at the top.'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters' Matthew ParrisBoris 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. 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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