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Posh Boys

Posh Boys 2

How English Public Schools Ruin Britain

by Robert Verkaik
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/09/2019
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Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children.

These children are plucked from their nurseries and sent to beautiful compounds far away from all the other children. They are provided with all the teachers they need, the best facilities, doctors and food. Every day they are told this is because they are the brightest and most important children in the world.

Years later they are presented with the best jobs, the grandest houses and most of the money. Through their networks of friends and family they control the government, the courts, the army, the police and the country's finances. They claim everyone is equal, that each person has a chance to become a leader. But this isn't true.

If such a world existed today wouldn't we say it was unfair, even corrupt?

With Posh Boys Robert Verkaik issues a searing indictment of the public school system and outlines how, through meaningful reform, we can finally make society fairer for all.

ISBN:
9781786076120
9781786076120
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-09-2019
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x28mm

'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.' –Andrew Marr, Sunday Times

''In his fascinating, enraging polemic, Verkaik touches on one of the strangest aspects of the elite schools and their product's domination of public life for two and a half centuries: the acquiescence of everyone else.' –Observer

Robert Verkaik

Robert Verkaik is a freelance journalist who writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Independent and Independent on Sunday.

His reporting was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010. He lives in Surrey.

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One explanation for why the British are what they are.

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An interesting overview of the system that has allowed "Upper Class" idiots like Boris Johnson and David Cameron to get into positions of power, and continue the demise of Britain.

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