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 *