Boris Johnson: The Gambler

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Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament Handout/EPA View image in fullscreen Boris Johnson during a parliamentary session on Covid.

Admittedly, it sounds like he was, and an atrocious husband too, having broken his first wife’s nose in a row while embarking on a half-crazed campaign for maximum sexual conquests. Shocking is the description at the end of the Corona period, had Johnson himself not got Corona, he would have neglected it even longer. A really enjoyable and well-written read, I will certainly be looking for more of this author's biographies - 9/10. Dip Into NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks.Found it very weird that the book focus an extreme amount on Brexit, it sows the seed for that topic quite early on, however the book was released before Brexit was made final and the deal was reached.

Bower portrays him as an absent father and violent husband, who punched his wife so hard he broke her nose. Keeping promises isn’t his strong suit, I can exclusively reveal, and there are going to be a lot of disappointed and possibly very angry people as these begin to pile up. There have been books on Johnson before, some fawning, some full of spite, I was hoping for something in between, a genuine look at the man, his politics and his complicated personal life.an assertion that is hard to square with her 16 years of experience in the highest court in the land, which routinely hears cases around administrative and constitutional law. The failing of this book is the author’s endless insistence that Johnson is great and everyone else is wrong. g. repeated use of “principle” when the correct word should have been “principal”), lots of sloppy grammar, syntax and punctuation, and many occasions when lazy journalism has kicked in (e. Is it a coincidence that a book about Boris Johnson, a known liar, doesn't stick to the truth as much? or where he excused false claims made by saying that they were OK because they illustrated a broader point he agreed with (around EU bureaucracy or immigration numbers).