Good Chaps (eBook)

How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It

Simon Kuper (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
187 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-80522-123-4 (ISBN)

Infos

'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 StatesmanThe '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?

Rezensionen

A document of our time

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

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

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

A sparkling firework of a book

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

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

The book to read on corruption in the UK

Exquisite and depressing in equal measure

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: 21st century British politics • Boris Johnson • British politics • British politics books • Chums Simon Kuper • Corruption • cronyism • failed state sam freedman • General Election • general election 2024 • How They Broke Britain • Johnson at 10 Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell • keir starmer • Liz Truss • Lying in State Boris Johnson • politics books 2024 • Posh Boys Robert Verkaik • Rishi Sunak • sleaze • Tories
• ISBN-10: 1-80522-123-X / 180522123X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80522-123-4 / 9781805221234