Boris Johnson
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Nov 21, 2024 |
thespectator.com | Peter Jones |Marc Oestreich |Drea de Matteo |Boris Johnson
Former British PM Boris Johnson’s memoir Unleashed imagines him, like Cincinnatus, leaving his plow, saving Rome, and returning to it. But given that Boris is among the international elite, perhaps Alcibiades (c. 451-404 BC) would fit him better. Athenian elites had long had connections with the other powerbrokers of the classical Greek world, Sparta and Persia.
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Oct 9, 2024 |
airmail.news | Tom Peck |Boris Johnson
Unleashed by Boris Johnson Boris Johnson’s Unleashed is an important historical document, but not necessarily a valuable one. Any historian who approaches it is likely to at least partially remember the bit from GCSE history about the reliability of sources. The reason Johnson, a biographer of notoriously dubious merit, has turned to autobiography significantly earlier than he would have liked is because his party correctly calculated that the country could no longer believe a word he had to say.
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Oct 4, 2024 |
thespectator.com | Paul Wood |Boris Johnson |Arieh Kovler |Uri Kurlianchick
Boris Johnson’s new memoir Unleashed is to be published next week, and with the highly-anticipated account promising to be the “political memoir of the century,” Cockburn was rather interested in what exactly it contains within its pages. Cockburn has put together a list of the top 15 things we learned from the former Prime Minister’s lengthy memoir…First to one of the most prominent scandals of Boris Johnson’s career: the matter of Partygate.
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Sep 28, 2024 |
thespectator.com | Philip Patrick |Boris Johnson |Claire Lowdon |Mark Nayler
The sixty-seven-year-old Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan’s new prime minister on October 1 after winning a surprisingly exciting play-off vote against his rival Sanae Takaichi. For a moment it looked as if Japanese MPs were set to elect the country’s first female leader (Takaichi was ahead of Ishiba in the first round of voting) but in the end the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) opted for experience and former defense minister Ishiba’s safe, and crucially clean pair of hands.
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Sep 27, 2024 |
thespectator.com | Claire Lowdon |Boris Johnson |Christopher Harding |Anne De Courcy
An earworm from the time of Covid: the sound of Connell and Marianne having breathless sex, bedsprings squeaking. I’m talking not about 2020’s hit TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling second novel, Normal People but about the relentless piss-take featured on BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers. After every few skits the show would cut to an audio clip of the two undergraduates going hard at it.
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