The Bullingdon Club

There's something about dressing up in your old blue waistcoat and tail finery, getting stonkingly scorched on champagne with your aristocratic friends, and then politely trashing the neighbourhood pub. Some kids get all the fun.

Below is a picture of David Cameron and Boris Johnson and other fellow King Scholars and Old Etonians from 1987, as members of the highly secretive and elitist Oxford dining society, the Bullingdon Club. Its modus operandi to this day is to book a private dining room under an assumed name, then physically destroy it. Very large amounts of cash are then offered to the upset owners to pay them off for the destruction -- a Buller tradition which dates back to Victorian times.

(1) Sebastian Grigg, (2) David Cameron, (3) Ralph Perry-Robinson, (4) Ewen Fergusson, (5) Matthew Benson, (6) Sebastian James, (7) Jonathan Ford, (8) Boris Johnson, (9) Harry Eastwood

Now I may be exactly the same age as these upper class gents, but I'm not envious in the slightest. We had even more fun in our military mess kits, and cut even more of a dashing presence wherever we went, dancing the ballroom night away and gorging ourselves not infrequently in self-destructive binges. Thankfully our excesses didn't involve the trashing of private property and other such reckless abandon, but we still had a smashing and hogwhimperingly hell of a good time.