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This is actually the story of generations of parents, Britain's richest and grandest, who assumed that being unpleasant at university was essential to make a good and successful citizen. Childish suffering was a cost they accepted for the preservation of these class and their entitlement. The kids who have been moulded by this misery and maltreatment went on - as they still do - to run Britain's public companies and private companies. Confronting the truth of his own schooldays and the crimes he witnessed, Alex Renton has unveiled a much bigger history. It is of an profound malaise in the United kingdom elite, shown up by tolerance of the maltreatment of its children that portions to collusion. This culture and its practices, and the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that underpin them, are fundamental to any reason of the scandals over sexual abuse, violence and cover-up in child care institutions that are now shocking the nation. As Renton shows, complicity in this is actually the bleak secret at the heart of today's United kingdom elite. Read by David Thorpe.

Category: Great Britain