Boris Johnson’s demise will have provoked a wide range of responses among readers. Some will mourn it, some will rejoice and others, like me, will be somewhere in between.
Many of my feelings have to do with the fact that Boris is first and foremost a journalist. In some way, his fall from grace seems like a judgement on members of our trade.
Of course numerous figures have straddled journalism and politics: Churchill, Brendan Bracken, Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, to name a
