Category: Boris Johnson

Johnson Government normalised culture of abuse and toxicity

Boris Johnson presided over a culture of toxic masculinity, in part because of his own hypermasculine style of leadership, argues Sian Norris.

Johnson Government normalised culture of abuse and toxicity

So what the hell happened to Boris Johnson — and can it happen to Donald Trump? | Salon.com

US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hold a meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, September 24, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Is Australia’s Scott Morrison the 3rd Musketeer?

There’s a truism of conventional wisdom, broadly accepted on both sides of the Atlantic, that British and American politics since World War II have run in rough parallel. Sometimes one of the two Anglophone democracies gets ahead and sometimes the other falls behind, but roughly similar phenomena — adjusted for cultural differences and quite different political systems — tend to occur at roughly the same time.

Source: So what the hell happened to Boris Johnson — and can it happen to Donald Trump? | Salon.com

Brace yourself, Britain, for a long stint of bad government under Boris Johnson | Rafael Behr | Opinion | The Guardian

Boris Johnson

If Boris Johnson is the answer, what was the question? To the 92,153 party members who voted for him, the new Conservative leader offers a remedy to two ailments: persistent membership of the EU and shrunken Tory popularity. Applying generous doses of Boris-branded tonic is meant to clear up both problems at once.

via Brace yourself, Britain, for a long stint of bad government under Boris Johnson | Rafael Behr | Opinion | The Guardian