Good Chaps

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, co-host of The Rest is Politics Exposes the corruption permeating UK politics and the death of the so-called "good chap" -- 'Best summer books of 2024' * Financial Times * An intelligible, compelling and enraging narrative ... how the Good Chaps get away with it -- Will Dunn * New Statesman * Perfectly timed as a guide to what the new government should do, Simon Kuper's follow-up to the superb Chums is a snappy, incisive account of the debasement of British politics by money and influence. -- Matthew D'Ancona * New European * 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 -- Tom Baldwin, author * Keir Starmer: The Biography * A document of our time * Sunday Times * Praise for Chums: 'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s -- James O'Brien An extraordinary book ... I got angrier and angrier and angrier as I read it -- Alastair Campbell A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters -- Matthew Parris A sparkling firework of a book -- Lynn Barber * Spectator * Exquisite and depressing in equal measure -- Matthew Syed * Sunday Times * This is the best detailed but lucid account I have read of how corruption surged in the UK -- Patrick Cockburn * i Paper * The book to read on corruption in the UK -- Patrick Cockburn * i Paper *

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.