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'How the system became rigged so that even the fortunate lose out: a masterpiece.' * Danny Dorling, author of <i>Inequality and the 1%</i> * '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, <i>Sunday Times</i> on <i>Posh Boys</i> * '[Verkaik's] hard-hitting, forensic takedown does propose measures that could lead to a more equitable system.' -- Herald (Glasgow)

'How the system became rigged so that even the fortunate lose out: a masterpiece.' * Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% * '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 on POSH BOYS *

'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 on POSH BOYS

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Robert Verkaik is a journalist and author of Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain. He writes for the Guardian, Independent, the i, Observer, Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times. His reporting was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010 and he was a runner-up in the specialist journalist category at the 2013 National Press Awards. He lives in Surrey.

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