Posh Boys How English Public Schools Ruin Britain

'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 In Britain today, the government, judiciary and military are all led by an elite who attended private school. Under their watch, our society has become increasingly divided and the gap between rich and poor is now greater than ever before. Is this the country we want to live in? If we care about inequality, we have to talk about public schools. Robert Verkaik issues a searing indictment of the system originally intended to educate the most underprivileged Britons, and outlines how, through meaningful reform, we can finally make society fairer for all.

ISBN:	9781786076120
Publisher:	Oneworld Publications
Imprint:	Oneworld
Published date:	04 Jul 2019
DEWEY:	373.2220942
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	viii, 392
Weight:	350g
Height:	130mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	30mm

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