A good line going around about Boris Johnson’s resignation is that he is the third consecutive prime minister brought down by Boris Johnson. This is cute, and somewhat true. Writing on his departure, Roger Kimball cites Macaulay: “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.” And it is rather farcic…
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