During a 2019 radio interview, Mr Johnson said investigating historic child sexual abuse was a waste of money, infamously declaring police budgets had been "spaffed up the wall" ... .
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Novelists, including great ones, can be a cranky bunch ... Her thoughts on the U.S ... They use that knowledge to step into another’s shoes ... Cline ... .
BoriAkinola is now Ireland’s fastest man indoors, the UCD athlete running 6.54 seconds in Belgrade to smash the Irish indoor 60m record of 6.57 set by Israel Olatunde in 2023 ... Akinola’s previous best was 6.59, run in Glasgow less than two weeks ago ... .
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. At least one fundamental human trait persists in the smartphone era. People seem to love a challenge ... So here’s my advice, if you need it ... .
The mood very much reminds me of the latter days of BorisJohnson. Boris became PM in the middle of a massive constitutional crisis ...Once Boris and I had got the Brexit job done, he became dispensable.
BorisJohnson has accused Sir Keir Starmer of behaving like a dictator after Labour postponed local elections for 4.5 million people ... Boris Johnson has said Labour is delaying local elections to because Sir Keir Starmer ‘fears a defeat’ Credit.
Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov is back at Covent Garden, and there are ninjas ... In other words, this is the first and shortest form of Boris, substantially different from the more familiar 1872 revision ...