Chums - How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

Chums is a chippy, bitter, cynical and partial account of the UK’s Eton- and Oxford-educated ruling class. But it is highly entertaining and thoroughly recommended. And to hell with class conflict.

I have waited a while to read Chums, which squarely blames Brexit on an Oxford-educated clique comprising David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Daniel Hannan and Dominic Cummings, amongst others.

I may have fallen for confirmation bias, but I found it elaborated much which I knew to be true about the aliens in whose company I walked for 14 years. Men – overwhelmingly – who have regarded me as likewise alien. People who seem to live by an unwritten and long-assumed set of rules: rules mostly about hierarchy, what really matters and how to behave. They are rules unknown to those of us who went to state school and I have often been happy to bulldoze through them.