Good Chaps

From the bestselling author of Chums, a powerful analysis of how corruption shapes British politics

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

Exposes the corruption permeating UK politics and the death of the so-called "good chap"

An intelligible, compelling and enraging narrative ... how the Good Chaps get away with it

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.

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

A document of our time

Praise for Chums: 'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s

An extraordinary book ... I got angrier and angrier and angrier as I read it

A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters

A sparkling firework of a book

Exquisite and depressing in equal measure

This is the best detailed but lucid account I have read of how corruption surged in the UK

The book to read on corruption in the UK

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.