Tony Blair ? (View Post)

The gods were flawed, but if Pericles presented himself as Johnson has he wouldn't have lasted long. Our democratic governing assumptions precede Judeo-Christian morality, and they rely on a lev… (View Post)

Very much as Trump got his supporters to enjoy the ironic and transgressive theatre, all a joke for ironic and worldly people on too-easily-offended liberals, until he was getting some of them to sma… (View Post)

Blair followed a familiar template - pretending to be lilywhite. Johnson is a much more recent phenomenon - the ironic marketing of transgression. (View Post)

An interesting fresh angle on Phil here. Prince Philip raged at the “self-righteous rubbish” in that “bloody Murdoch rag” the Times, the cartoonist Martin Rowson has revealed. .... “He turned to Broo… (View Post)