Boris Johnson wrote: “to secure more notches on my phallocratic phallus”. It was Peak Boris - the carefully contrived winsome and “roguish” sense of humour. What on Earth has become of us?”With even the right-wing tabloids speaking of the Foreign Secretary’s political “ignorance” this morning, the consensus is that Boris Johnson is a joke that isn’t funny anymore. When the reality of political life intrudes - a hard border in Ireland - he reverts to type and tries to quip his way around it. But we’ve heard the joke before,And when comedy, like history, repeats itself - it’s first as tragedy, then as farce.

Source: The Irish Times February 28, 2018 12:22 UTC