I saw that this morning and wondered who the bloke wandering back and forth reading and seemingly oblivious was. Maybe he's counting the angels in. You know, like they count you into the supermarket.
I haven't read Bower's version of our current PM but the review extract from the TLS, more than persuades me that I must. A touch of the bathetic would suit these moments in our times....
"He minimizes Johnson’s misdemeanours – not by omitting them, but rather by listing so many that they lose their power to shock. Thus, the first time he describes Johnson cheating on his wife, and lying, it is disturbing; but when Bower describes the fourth affair and Johnson’s claim that “It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture …”, it is bathetic."
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lord of misrule: A Review
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/boris-johnson-tom-bower-book-review-rory-stewart/
"He minimizes Johnson’s misdemeanours – not by omitting them, but rather by listing so many that they lose their power to shock. Thus, the first time he describes Johnson cheating on his wife, and lying, it is disturbing; but when Bower describes the fourth affair and Johnson’s claim that “It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture …”, it is bathetic."
Thank you, Artemis.
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
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