Boris Johnson, the flaxen-haired MP for Henley-on-Thames, is one of Britain's best-loved figures. Writer, journalist, politician and game-show contestant, he is always guaranteed to illuminate an issue with pith and verve. This book is a collection of his best columns from the "Daily Telegraph". Combining the comic and the serious, Boris Johnson tackles such weighty issues as why British culture is worth defending but why we need a rich and confident America. He tells of how he exposed the EU attempt to reclassify snails as fish, and carrots as fruit and meditates on the complexities of Michael Portillo, the uneasy charm of Bill Clinton, and the "massif central of Ken Clarke's abdomen". As a new MP, he highlights the absurdities of life in the house, such as the pernicketiness of the rules surrounding pre-paid envelopes. New light is shone upon the current Prime Minister: the "weird" dependence that Tony Blair had with Mandelson, the rich ironies of Blair's relationship with Margaret Thatcher, and why Blair and Brown were once Wallis and Gromit.Away from Westminster, this famous cyclist tells of having his bike stolen and the ineffective police response, and of how he once provoked an unusual case of cycle-rage.
He also gives reasons for his notorious series of appearances on "Have I Got News for You", and explains why fining parents for their children's delinquency is a fine idea and why Hitler has got everything to do with the euro.
- ISBN10 0826468551
- ISBN13 9780826468550
- Publish Date 14 June 2003
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 11 November 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English