Welcome to Oxford University in the era of identity politics, where students discuss “lived experience”, acknowledge their “moral complicity” and pontificate about ways to enact “systemic change”. The spearheads of these discussions have names like Annunziata Rees-Mogg and went to boarding school, except they’re not Tories, they’re liberals with right-on opinions about decolonising the curriculum.
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert’s debut novel Shibboleth is an enjoyable satire of such ideologues, cloistered in this echoiest of echo chambers.
