Episode 8: The Excesses of Sweden, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins

Episode 8 of the Old Boys Book Club will delight fans of Dean, as we chart once again his torrid history, but its bad news for clock-watchers, as Johnson's obsession with particular back stories (especially those that facilitate an attack on left-wing social initiatives) means we don't really push the action forwards here. And a Trigger Warning for fans of supportive democracies like Sweden that look after their citizens: Johnson's coming for you and your bloated states. --Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, 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.