01-06-2025
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Shibboleth by Thomas Peermohamed Lambert review: A campus satire for the modern age
I'm not sure whether the students leading the social justice charge at Oxbridge really are the Tatler Bystanderish poshos, or indeed whether someone's quarter African heritage would have such an effect on said poshos, but perhaps Lambert knows better than me. After all, it is his 'lived experience': he graduated from Oxford in 2020 and has a Zanzibarian grandfather. A character with his first name makes a brief cameo in the novel at a Mixed Heritage Society event, as the only other attendee 'who was as pasty and awkward as Edward'.
