January 31

Ebullient Boris The latest revelation from Boris Johnson that President Putin threatened to kill him is yet another example of his regular flights of fancy,eye-catching but ridiculous. The media, of course has fallen for it, television showing Putin on the phone apparently corroberating the story. Mr Johnson has a long history of telling tall tales that have proved fabricated, back to when he was a foreign correspondent reporting the EU He was sacked twice for innacuracy. It has made no difference. In fact it has got worse, especially during his farcical time as pm. He is incapable of telling the truth, using instead lies and jokes. He was never fit to be pm but that has never occurred to him or worried him. He must be in the limelight, centre stage, witty irrevarent. He flourishes on it and surely will never change. Now out of the limelight he still stretces his imagination and our belief. He will never change.