• THE media-lite “Boris as buffoon” has been trumped; PM Johnson is imminent.

The UK gets “the leader it deserves” but the consequences are that the fightback requires direct challenges to the premises of the political discourse hitherto: “…to examine a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy, speaks verbosely of its own silence, takes great pains to relate in detail the things it does not say, denounces the powers it exercises, and promises to liberate itself from the very laws that have made it function”. – Michel Foucault.

“Do or die”? A war-time Churchill, Johnson never will be.

MIKE BOR
St George’s Fields, W2