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Good Chaps
How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It
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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 ......
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From the bestselling author of Chums, a powerful analysis of how corruption shapes British politics
From the bestselling author of Chums, a powerful analysis of how corruption shapes British politics
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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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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781805221227
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Edition: Main
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 224
About the Author
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.
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