The Tory leadership hopeful gives impassioned speeches in the house about hedgehogs, and sees himself as the second coming of TE Lawrence. Is there anyone in the running for the Tory leadership I can enjoy, purely from a style point of view? I’ll leave it up to my colleagues on the politics desk to consider the waddyacallits, um, you know, the thingummybobs. (I’m holding out for a young Lucian Freud or young Mickey Rourke, neither of whom, sadly, are running for the Tory leadership.) As his mother described Stewart’s background to the New Yorker: “Dragon [school], Eton, the Army, Balliol, diplomatic service.

Source: The Guardian May 29, 2019 17:33 UTC