Boris and Brexit
I was in the Metro. I looked down at the newspaper the man on my left was reading. It featured three characters. One, a Boris Johnson jumping up and screaming “F*#% Europe!” To his right a flustered and disturbed David Cameron wheels around, saying, “Trump?” To his right a French footman bows and says, in French, “No, it’s the Mayor of London…” Later that same day I was writing in a cafe and four tables over I heard snippets of a conversation in French in which the words “Boris” and “Brexit” featured prominently. It was the day after Boris had delivered...
