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Good Chaps
Simon Kuper
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft
Beschreibung
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'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
'An intelligible, compelling and enraging narrative ... how the Good Chaps get away with it' New Statesman
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?
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An intelligible, compelling and enraging narrative ... how the Good Chaps get away with it
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
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
A sparkling firework of a book
Perfectly timed as a guide to what the new government should do, Simon Kuper'
The book to read on corruption in the UK
A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn'
Exquisite and depressing in equal measure
<p><b>Praise for <i>Chums:</i></b><br><i>'
This is the best detailed but lucid account I have read of how corruption surged in the UK
An extraordinary book ... I got angrier and angrier and angrier as I read it
A document of our time
Exposes the corruption permeating UK politics and the death of the so-called "good chap"
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