A recent lunchtime conversation turned to Boris Johnson. “I don’t understand him,” someone said. “I used to think Boris was just an opportunist. But what he’s been doing lately doesn’t seem at all to be serving his interests.”
I replied, “He’s an opportunist without opportunity… What we’re seeing is the free-field behaviour of the opportunist.”
For more observations on British ruling class synecdoche Johnson see this post.
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