[Tubby Isaacs]

Surprised it's taken her so long, given what Johnson did to wreck her deal. Then again I suppose every Tory ex-PM will want to avoid being painted as being like Ted Heath v Thatcher. Maybe we'll hear more from her- she's a much better fit than Johnson for the Mail's readership, I expect. Once Johnson stops winning and taking credit for Brexit, she could do a very good line in elder statesman stuff against him.

[Oblomov]

This concern for Johnson's moral failings were oddly absent when Der Heil were championing him in 2019.

[Bones McCoy]

Quite. But the fact that the Mail is now willing to run a front page story criticising Johnson's leadership - rather than just bleat that he got Brexit done - is something that I wasn't expecting.

Grease up the Govester.

[Cyclist]

Will grease actually adhere to that oleaginous coprolite?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I missed this earlier.

[oboogie]

How odd that Johnson says it's a matter for Biden whether he keeps Churchill's bust in the Oval Office or not. I'm sure I recall that Johnson took a rather different view when Obama removed it.
Why would that be, I wonder?

[KevS]

I do wonder if there's a bust of FDR in the PM's office in Downing Street....

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Might give him a decent rôle model to emulate.

[oboogie]

Might give him a decent rôle model to emulate.

Surely you've not forgotten this already, Malc?

https://www.ft.com/content/ba389c9c-ba0 ... c604854c3f

[The Rationalist]

How odd that Johnson says it's a matter for Biden whether he keeps Churchill's bust in the Oval Office or not. I'm sure I recall that Johnson took a rather different view when Obama removed it.
Why would that be, I wonder?

The fact that Amanda Gorman's inauguration day poem was in part inspired by Churchill should send his brain into further spasms!

[davidjay]

How odd that Johnson says it's a matter for Biden whether he keeps Churchill's bust in the Oval Office or not. I'm sure I recall that Johnson took a rather different view when Obama removed it.
Why would that be, I wonder?

The fact that Amanda Gorman's inauguration day poem was in part inspired by Churchill should send his brain into further spasms!

Do you think he's ever read a poem in English that didn't begin "There was once a woman from..."

[Andy McDandy]

Remember Cameron saying that he thought Dulce et Decorum est was about the nobility of sacrifice in war?

[Bones McCoy]

How odd that Johnson says it's a matter for Biden whether he keeps Churchill's bust in the Oval Office or not. I'm sure I recall that Johnson took a rather different view when Obama removed it.
Why would that be, I wonder?

The fact that Amanda Gorman's inauguration day poem was in part inspired by Churchill should send his brain into further spasms!

Do you think he's ever read a poem in English that didn't begin "There was once a woman from..."

A couple of bits of Kipling perhaps.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Mandalay, at least.
Though I doubt he has any understanding of Kipling's rather complex character, or has read Epitaphs of the War.

a dead statesman

I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?


And he thinks 'Ozymandias' is a hagiography.

[Bones McCoy]

https://twitter.com/search?q=Branagh&sr ... cal=trends


I'm expecting a reprise of his Gilderoy Lockhart character form the Harry Potters.

Poor guy; (c|sh)ould've quit while he was Henry V.