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All talk and no trousers: is Oxford really to blame for Brexit?

7 May 2022

9:00 AM

7 May 2022

9:00 AM

Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK Simon Kuper

Profi le Books, pp.240, 14.99

Attacks on British elitism usually talk about Oxbridge, but Simon Kuper argues that it is specifically Oxford that is the problem, which has provided 11 (out of 15) prime ministers since the war. So what’s the explanation? Kuper thinks it’s all the fault of the Oxford Union, which fosters chaps who are clever at debating without particularly caring which side they are on.

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