Simon Kuper: Corrupt Politicians and What to Do About Them

‘Exquisite and depressing in equal measure’ is how Matthew Syed described Chums by Simon Kuper: a withering takedown of the Oxford clique who’ve come to define the Tory party. With a general election just passed and a news cycle rife with political corruption, the Financial Times journalist’s follow up, Good Chaps, couldn’t be more needed. Kuper talks to Catherine Salmond about how the ‘chumocracy’ isn’t over, asking: what we have learned?

Categories: Nonfiction, Politics

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