Lynn Barber

All talk and no trousers: is Oxford really to blame for Brexit?

The Oxford Union is to blame for the articulate bluffers governing Britain, says Simon Kuper in his diatribe against the Tory ‘Chumocracy’ centred around Boris Johnson – all Oxford undergraduates at roughly the same time in the 1980s

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  • Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

    Simon Kuper

    Profile Books, pp. 240, £14

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