Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Oxocracy -- An elite of sorts -- Class war -- A little learning -- Buller rules -- The children's parliament -- The bounder speaks -- Stooges, votaries and victims -- Union and non-union -- Birth of Brexit -- A generation without tragedy -- Adults now -- Our house -- No fighting in the establishment -- Brexit and the Oxford Union -- May I count on your vote? -- The Chumocracy Pandemic -- What is to be done?

'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters' - Matthew Parris Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners. They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them. Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this narrowest of talent pools - and the friendships and worldviews it created - shaped modern Britain. This is a searing critique of the British ruling class and its 'chumocracy' by the smartest commentator in journalism today.