Boris Johnson
Whiff-Whaff
Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy! Who is Boris Johnson? A practical joker? An out-and-out joke? The next prime minister? Or all of the above? The New Republic | 5 min (1,272 words) READ MORE >>
Continental Rift
Just over 45 years ago, I set foot in the United States for the first time. If you had sat the old Oxford scholarship exam in December and, in Simon Gray’s deathless definition of the pedagogical process, displayed a fluent fraudulence that the examiners could not expose without revealing their own fraudulence, you were able to take the next nine months off before going up as a freshman in October. READ MORE >>
Blair To Blame?
The tow-headed, oafish Boris Johnson-- member of Parliament, erstwhile editor of the Spectator, and columnist for the Daily Telegraph--is of a type that we don't have in America but which is very common in Britain: the legislator-cum-journalist. Johnson is notorious there for his role in the "Sextator" scandal of 2004 in which, simultaneously, Johnson (married with young children) was caught sleeping with one of the magazine's contributors, the READ MORE >>
