Episode 24: A Taramasalata Coloured Tie - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins

Episode 24! Where does it go eh? Certainly not into plot and character development.

As you've probably established by now, the setting is going nowhere. We're in and our course is set. We'll be in Westminster hall until the book ends. And this isn't even a spoiler, this is an inevitability. One that you have come to accept long ago, but only now are letting yourself truly come to terms with what that means. 

So, we have a few tens of pages left, we're in Westminster hall, the terrorists have the president, and Johnson is running pretty low on metaphors. 

Strap in!


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Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old Boy.

We have reached peak 'Old Boy' with Johnson, Trump, Farage et al leading the world towards a leather-clad man cave of environmental catastrophe. 

But what exactly is an Old Boy?

In what will almost certainly be called the pinnacle of modern satire, but is as yet unreviewed, Jonny and Andy introduce the world to Old Boy after Old Boy in the best way they know: by decoding the literature they have willingly created.