Bullingdon Club Concepts

Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011–2016

by Stewart Lee · 1 Aug 2016 · 282pp · 89,266 words

? What a tragic wasted opportunity to present a true portrait of the Iron Lady Shame on you, Alex Salmond, for selling us out to the Bullingdon Club I was getting on so well with Gillian Welch. Then David Cameron butts in How I was busted by the O—— Advertisement Enforcement Office Movements

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-levels, it is impossible to imagine either in government today, composed, as it is, principally of former members of the elite Oxford vomiting society the Bullingdon Club. The state-schools system is stretched to the limit; the withdrawal of further education grants deters poorer students; and government contributions to the Bookstart scheme

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is not Glenn Close portraying Margaret Thatcher, but the wonderful, Meryl Streep.” Lady Jaine Shame on you, Alex Salmond, for selling us out to the Bullingdon Club Observer, 5 February 2012 As the Scottish independence campaign rolled forward it struck me that there were all sorts of English newspaper commentators, on both

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we Scots than ever, now that the Cabinet is essentially an elitist cabal run by former members of the exclusive, window-smashing dining society, the Bullingdon Club. And none of them is Scottish either, apart from the bad-news patsy Danny Alexander and the eel-faced Trot fantasist and yacht fancier Michael

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, and so cannot make any especial claims for being anything but an orphan with a grudge. But what the Scots must understand is that the Bullingdon Club Cabinet has as little in common with the average English person as it does with the average Scot. If 5.5 million largely non-Conservative

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-voting Scots sever their links with us, there are 5.5 million fewer of us to say no to Bullingdon Club rule. Mel Gibson’s 1995 film Braveheart, while an admittedly appalling and historically inaccurate confection of gay-hating fascist propaganda, did inspire the desire for

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the aid of those in need. In turning his back on us, the English, in our hour of need against the common enemy of the Bullingdon Club government, Alex Salmon is not the Robert the Bruce of the Battle of Bannockburn, noble and brave. He is the Robert the Bruce of the

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My Name”, especially, occupied a special room in the house of my heart, and now David Cameron has blundered all around that house in his Bullingdon Club blazer, drunk on champagne, with dog muck on his spats, smearing it on everything I hold dear, and telling me to “calm down” while I

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the Conservative Party. Unlike his colleagues, Gove wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and by the time his friends from the Bullingdon Club had offered him theirs to lick he had moved on to knives and forks anyway, which I have often witnessed him deploy with forensic accuracy

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alternative to the corporate McDonald’s and Burger King chains. But earlier this month The Times reported that Jacob Rothschild, the father of Osborne’s Bullingdon Club associate Nat Rothschild, is considering buying Byng’s big burger business, though his plan to rename it as Bilder Burger has been seen as a

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had been done to my beliefs too. On Wednesday evening a high-level spook I had known vaguely at Oxford, a former Etonian and a Bullingdon Club chum of David Cameron’s, rang me up with interesting findings and a resistible offer. “You’ve been following this Birmingham schools thing, Lee?” “Yes

Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain

by Robert Verkaik · 14 Apr 2018 · 419pp · 119,476 words

in 1963 when a privately educated politician lied to parliament about his personal life. John Profumo (Harrow), a leading member of Oxford University’s exclusive Bullingdon Club, enjoyed an active sex life outside his marriage. One of his lovers was the model Christine Keeler, who had also begun an affair with a

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behaviour of the pupil-run societies that dominated the ungoverned public schools of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today, it is said that a prospective Bullingdon Club member must burn a fifty pound note in front of a homeless person. Hooliganism and vandalism are part of the club’s raison d’être

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be dealt with firmly. Asked by Evan Davis on the Today programme whether he could see any likeness between the rioters and members of the Bullingdon Club, Cameron said: ‘We all do stupid things when we’re young. And I think that’s clear. But I think what we saw in terms

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of law the dangers of relying on such a narrow group of professionals to run the City is laid bare. In 2016 Luke Bridgeman, a Bullingdon Club contemporary of David Cameron and George Osborne, was accused of taking confidential client details when he left his job to join a rival firm. Bridgeman

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. Public school graduates gravitate to one another, joining clubs, societies and elites that reinforce the myth that their privileged world is commonplace. But Oxford’s Bullingdon Club and Cambridge’s private school-dominated Apostles and the many other invitation-only associations shut out the rest of society. For Cambridge alumnus Times columnist

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21 www.etoncollege.com/TheOEA.aspx 22 https://development.mtsn.org.uk/city-network---september-2016 23 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/sep/02/bullingdon-club-david-cameron-riots 24 Ashcroft and Oakeshott, p. 73. 25 Mail on Sunday, 18 March 2007; Ashcroft and Oakeshott, p. 79. 26 http://www.telegraph

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/men/thinking-man/10377728/Clubland-were-all-members-now.html 27 Ashcroft and Oakeshott, p. 80. 28 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/sep/02/bullingdon-club-david-cameron-riots; Ashcroft and Oakeshott, p. 111. 29 Ashcroft and Oakeshott, p. 198. 30 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3461103/The-torture

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, Charlie 147 Brougham, Henry 29 Brown, Gordon 107, 287 Bruce, Charles 136 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 32 Bryant, Chris 128 Buchanan, Mike 119 Buffet, Warren 329 Bullingdon Club 137, 141–2, 306 bullying 271, 273 Burgess, Guy 133 bursaries 226–35, 321–2, 332 Butler, Rab 77, 78–9, 81, 82 Butler, Robin

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire

by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson · 15 Jan 2019 · 502pp · 128,126 words

to remember Cecil Rhodes with more honesty than most do. After spending only one term at Oriel College in Oxford, where he enlisted in the Bullingdon Club,13 Rhodes, aged twenty, joined the white man’s rush to exploit gold and diamonds. He acquired the huge open-cast mine at Kimberley. There

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-imperial-dream-catchers-and-the-truths-of-empire 13 James, M. (2014) ‘Cecil Rhodes and the Bullingdon Club’, Rhodes Bishop’s Stortford Museum News, 15 April, http://www.rhodesbishopsstortford.org.uk/museum-news/cecil-rhodes-and-the-bullingdon-club/ 14 Brendon, P. (2007) The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781–1997, London

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) were also pupils. From there, David went to Eton and then on to Brasenose College, Oxford. There, he studied PPE, but also belonged to the Bullingdon Club (Figure 7.2), which was supposedly founded as a sporting club for wealthy men in 1780. The club is now known for ostentatious spending, boisterous

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school in Sussex, then at Eton and next at Balliol College, Oxford. There, he was elected president of the Oxford Union and took part in Bullingdon Club hijinks. Following a career in journalism, he was sacked by The Times for deception, having invented a quote, and then gained employment as the Telegraph

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Journal 1, 2 BRIT(ish): On Race Identity and Belonging (Hirsch) 1 British Union of Fascists 1 Brokenshire, James 1 Brown, Gordon 1, 2, 3 Bullingdon Club 1 Burgess, Guy 1 Buxton, Ronald 1 Cairncross, John 1 Cairns, Alun 1 Cambridge Analytica 1 Cambridge University 1, 2, 3, 4 Cameron, David promises

No Such Thing as Society

by Andy McSmith · 19 Nov 2010 · 613pp · 151,140 words

“last hurrah” of the upper classes.’34 One of the stars of this new firmament was Darius Guppy, an old Etonian who helped revive the Bullingdon Club, whose antics had been recounted in Waugh’s novels. Guppy later went to jail for fraud. Another was Count Gottfried von Bismarck, a descendant of

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two months before losing his daughter. Years later, two journalists researching the life of David Cameron came upon a photograph of the members of the Bullingdon Club, which Cameron had joined, for the academic year 1986–7. The photograph showed ten supremely confident young men posing in their navy-blue tailcoats, with

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kids displayed their indifference to law and order. Cameron went to bed early on the night that the police were called after members of the Bullingdon Club had thrown a pot plant through the plate-glass window of a restaurant, so was not involved. Johnson ran from the scene fast enough to

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avoid arrest.39 After the old Bullingdon Club photograph was uncovered, the local firm that owned the copyright withdrew permission for it to be used again, which did not stop it being pirated

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Elliott and James Hanning, Cameron, The Rise of the New Conservative, Harper Perennial, London, 2009. The writers say that Cameron’s invitation to join the Bullingdon Club came at the end of his first year in university, i.e. around July 1986. The photograph, which is not dated, must have been taken

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Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

by Ed West · 19 Mar 2020 · 530pp · 147,851 words

or their tone. ‘Elitism’, once a good thing, now usually implies discrimination by the wealthy, privileged and unfairly advantaged. It makes you think of the Bullingdon Club or Draco Malfoy or whatever, and journalists even go on about elitism when politics is full of Oxbridge graduates, even though Oxford and Cambridge are

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Baxter Basics and Tory Boy. It didn’t help that the leaders were posher than ever and had mostly been members of something called the Bullingdon Club, a society for rich idiots who liked smashing up restaurants, which journalistic Oxford contemporaries cited as evidence of their elitism. I’d never heard of

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, 265, 281 Brown era 203–4 Bruinvels, Peter 194 B’Stard, Alan 89 Buchanan, Pat 154–9, 313 Buckley, William F. 68, 295–6, 313 Bullingdon Club 267 Burke, Edmund 47, 53–5, 57–9, 61–3, 65, 66, 68, 70–2, 82, 89–90, 159, 163, 181, 190, 191, 198, 230

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears · 24 Apr 2024 · 357pp · 132,377 words

same cloth. For every David Cameron, George Osborne or Boris Johnson who dressed up in royal-blue tailcoats with ivory lapels as part of the Bullingdon Club dining society, there was a nerdier Jeremy Hunt or Ed Davey. They were followed by Liz Truss campaigning for the Liberal Democrats and against the

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of Latin.60 Although at Oxford he instantly became a university-wide celebrity, his later confession that he had been among the members of the Bullingdon Club who were notoriously arrested for smashing up a restaurant in 1987 is said to have been another lie. According to at least one former member

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Brown, Jane, here Brown, Roy ‘Chubby’, here–here, here, here Brownies, here, here–here, here Buckland Abbey, here, here, here, here Bull, Steve, here, here Bullingdon Club, here, here Burchell, Thomas, here–here Burnard, Trevor, here Bush, George W., here–here Butler, Rab, here Butterworth, Jez, here Buxton, Thomas Foxwell, here Caine

The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century

by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words

preconceived notions about them. At Oxford, Boris Johnson – along with David Cameron and his later rival Jeremy Hunt – had been a member of the infamous Bullingdon Club, a student society founded more than two centuries ago. Born to rule, club members stressed their exclusivity – they once burned a fifty-pound note in

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. What we were watching now was a degenerate version, a game of words played by an elite that, according to the best traditions of the Bullingdon Club, would never personally suffer the consequences of its actions. Labour leader Corbyn participated eagerly, in his own way. He raised not a finger to protect

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of Free Cities’ (2019) and 476 Budapest Memorandum (1994) 284 Bulgaria 18, 94, 96, 98, 100–1, 103, 113, 139, 260, 288, 329, 338, 359 Bullingdon Club, Oxford University 393, 430 Bundesbank 228, 235 Bush, George H. W. 69 Bush, George W. 64, 68, 69, 70, 74, 164, 260, 262, 263, 413

The Dealmaker: Lessons From a Life in Private Equity

by Guy Hands · 4 Nov 2021 · 341pp · 107,933 words

Steel, 19 Bromley, Kent, 169 Brown, John, 122, 318 Browne, Dave, 308 Browns, Shoreditch, 105 BSkyB, 198 Buffett, Warren, 193, 215 Bullfinch pub, Sevenoaks, 232 Bullingdon Club, 45 bullying, 7, 12, 15, 17, 18, 23–4, 29 Burger King, 153, 203, 264, 265 Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, 5 Burton, Michael, 255 Bush, George

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Desert Storm (1991), 82–3 Oriel College, Oxford, 49 Orpington, Kent, 38 Osaka, Japan, 148 Oxford University, 4, 10, 32–6, 39, 43–59, 263 Bullingdon Club, 45 Conservative Association (OUCA), 53–8, 61 debating society, 49–50 drinking culture, 46 Hertford College, 52 Magdalen College, 54, 55 Mansfield College, 34–6

The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times

by Lionel Barber · 5 Nov 2020

tailcoat in navy blue, with matching velvet collar, offset with a mustard waistcoat and sky blue tie which he wore as a member of the Bullingdon Club in his student days in Oxford. David William Donald Cameron wants to be an Average Dave for the day. He’s preparing for power, eager

Londongrad: From Russia With Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley · 22 Jul 2009 · 471pp · 127,852 words

Shadow Chancellor had known Nat Rothschild since they were contemporaries at Colet Court preparatory school and then Oxford, where they were both members of the Bullingdon Club. Given the unpopularity of the Labour government at the time, Rothschild perhaps saw his old friend as a potential ally. That evening the investment banker