If you happen to be a Johnson fan, this book will provide you with all the confirmation bias you need. Other characters are presented in glowing descriptive terms, again quite without necessity, suggesting the author’s bias.

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.Even once he’d committed to Brexit, he argued that it made no sense for Britain to leave the single market – a position he would casually jettison once it suited him. and then goes on to claim that it is an outdated language (the book was likely written on a computer running an operating system mostly written in C) and that ‘modern industry best practice’ would require a 15,000 line program to be broken up into 500 source files. The author is unafraid of diving into the secrets of Boris Johnson's family background, his infidelities, and his character traits with lots of things I didn't previously know. He takes no interest in his children’s upbringing, except to communicate a couple of life lessons: “If you’re working hard, don’t show it … show effortless superiority”; and “Nothing matters very much and most things don’t matter at all. This is a compulsory read for all who wish for better in our country, so that we may forgive and support our prime minister rather than berate him, for we must put aside differences as much we can so as to improve all our lives.

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So if you were wondering, Johnson still comes off as a lascivious, self-serving creep even in a biography written by a mewling johnson sycophant. One can’t help thinking that his luck is about to run out - or has he another Houdini like trick up his sleeve? I don’t know if he had a previous relationship with the subject (the acknowledgements suggests not), or fell under Johnson’s spell during the course of writing, but the outcome is a level of bias I would only expect from an autobiography. The onetime Telegraph diarist Quentin Letts is struck that Johnson never passed on any gossip: “He doesn’t notice people’s quirks and their embarrassments,” Letts observes, which Bower puts down to Johnson’s “narcissism”: he’s just not that interested in anyone other than himself. His most recent books include the most authoritative and best selling account of Tony Blair's decade as prime minister and the definitive biographies of Jeremy Corbyn, Gordon Brown and Geoffrey Robinson MP.

Eton and Oxford prepared him well for a frantic career straddling the dog-eat-dog worlds of journalism and politics. Johnson’s hero, Winston Churchill, did that with the entire war effort, from the manufacture of armaments to military strategy. He rarely mentions Corbyn, the former Labour Party leader, without describing him as "the anti-Semitic Marxist". I found this unauthorised biography of Boris Johnson totally engrossing - it came across to me as a balanced and unbiased representation of his life and career about a man whose behaviour has been, on occasion, maddening and reprehensible. But that leaves a larger question untouched, one less about the politician than about the people who vote for him.After reading this book I can see him being off by the middle of next year if not earlier, he really is the English Donald Trump! For instance he made no mention of Johnson's refusal to recommend John Bercow to the House of Lords, although Hammond was rewarded.

Ce livre est non seulement distrayant, mais un must si on veut comprendre ce qui s’est réellement passé au Royaume-Uni ces dernières décennies. He assumes the righteousness of capitalism, he dismisses anyone from the political Left or trade unionists. Sadly in Boris' case, the Churchillian moment arrived, and he has through his weak attention to detail, autocratic leadership style, promotion of 'yes men', poor organisational skills, 'gung ho' approach, libertarianism, and his need to be loved and admired by all, allowed the UK to fall into it's greatest peace time crisis. His previous books about the failure to denazify post war Germany and the hunt for Nazi war criminals, Anglo American intelligence operations against Russia during the Cold War and corruption in the Premier League won great acclaim. See our Remarkables Archive list for what is no longer in print, but which we are happy to track down.

But the one thing you take away from this is the old saw - in America, power is derived from wealth, in the UK power is derived from privilege. Similarly, Bower concedes that Johnson once wrote of “grinning picaninnies” with “watermelon smiles” and, for good measure, digs out a line that Johnson’s critics missed: “Some dream of their teeth falling out as they are about to be executed with the scimitar by a beautiful black woman.