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Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
Mile End Institute Podcast
English - June 15, 2022 11:26 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, Professor Tim Bale welcomes Simon Kuper to the Mile End Institute Podcast to talk about his latest book, Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, which was published by Profile Books this Spring. Tim and Simon discuss how the University of Oxford has produced the most prominent Conservative politicians of our time, the prestige of the Oxford Union and the unique opportunities it affords 18-year-olds to network and 'debate', and how power, privilege, and elite education have interacted to shape modern Britain.