Episode 29: You Idiot Mp! - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins

It's hard to know how to feel in writing the following words. Not because there is a mixture of emotions (there isn't) but because it barely seems credible that this has actually ended.  Reading 72 Virgins felt like an act of interminable penance, forever pushing this agonising piece of work up a hill of dreadful literature, only to start afresh with each chapter. 

But we're here. This is the final chapter of the book. It can't go on any longer. There will be, at the end of this episode, literally no more pages to read. 

We will be hosting a final episode for this Book, wrapping up the (countless loose ends) and reviewing the work. Who knows, there might be party rings and weak orange squash? Or maybe it will be more of a wake vibe?

But that's all in a gleaming future. For now, enjoy this, the last chapter of 72 Virgins. You've earned it! 

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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.