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Bullingdon Club
The Bullingdon Club is an exclusive but unofficial all-male students' dining club based in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is noted for its wealthy members, grand banquets and boisterous rituals, such as the vandalising ('trashing') of restaurants and college rooms.
The Bullingdon was originally a sporting club, dedicated to cricket and horse-racing, although club dinners gradually became its principal activity. Membership in the club is expensive, with tailor-made uniforms, regular gourmet hospitality, and a tradition of on-the-spot payment for damages.
The club has attracted controversy, due to former members now being part of the UK political establishment. These include the current Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Mayor of London Boris Johnson.
The University of Oxford extends no official recognition to the club, and many local restaurants refuse to host its events. It is regularly featured in fiction and drama, sometimes under its own name, and sometimes easily recognisable under another (as in the 2014 film The Riot Club).
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The Scotsman
April 19, 2018
As a consequence, the Tories had to reinvent themselves, but leader after leader failed to reduce the level of toxicity, from the boyish William Hague to the eccentric but wooden Iain Duncan Smith, until a young David Cameron used his bonhomie to mask the Bullingdon Club ethos that lay behind hisÃâà...
British GQ
April 14, 2018
The Bullingdon Club, which is thought to have reached peak membership in 2011 and whose members we used to know by name (partly because they would do ridiculously conspicuous things, such as set off fireworks inside a busy nightclub and burn Ãâã50 notes in front of beggars) no longer has enoughÃâà...
Irish Times
April 7, 2018
Dreamily describing him as “the perfect match” to her braying brother Sam (the would-be star of a Muppet movie about the Bullingdon Club) she set the scene for everything to go catastrophically wrong. Upon seeing her outpouring of faux-motion on his timeline, Louise's New York hotdog ex-boyfriend AlikÃâà...
The Independent
March 23, 2018
Like those questions about Greek mythology on University Challenge, the infamous photo of David Cameron, Boris Johnson, George Osborne et al in the Bullingdon Club rigout, and the whole Brideshead Revisited thing, the Boat Race is a symbol of something deeply unattractive. To any aspiring child atÃâà...
The Guardian
March 4, 2018
Gary Younge does an exhaustive demolition job on the foreign secretary (Boris Johnson's white privilege: imagine he was a black woman, 2 March), but I think he lets off very lightly the institution that produces such a narrow-minded, incompetent elite. It is the private boarding school that produces theÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
February 15, 2018
Founded 200 years ago as a sports club at Oxford University, the Bullingdon Club has transformed itself into a society for Tory toffs to trough out on gourmet meals before trashing venues. It's booze fuelled banquets often end with members vandalising restaurants and students' rooms - before coughing upÃâà...
Cherwell Online
October 4, 2017
This week, Oxford's new students will decide which clubs they want to be part of for their first term at the university. And for anyone interested in joining the Bullingdon Club, Oxford's most notorious and exclusive society, Cherwell has obtained a copy of their secret letter of instruction sent out to one of aÃâà...
Bleeding Cool News
December 31, 1999
Some of this is based on the real life traditionally all-male clubs at Harvard, Yale and Oxford like Skull and Bones, the Porcellian and the Bullingdon Club. PAGE 10: Finally, I get us out of Century City. So why not? Let's go to… Istanbul! Perhaps you've noticed a trend in my writing — characters traveling isÃâà...
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