Tory Toffs, Cosmopolitanism and Greed
By Max Musson: Boris Johnson delivered a speech yesterday revealing much about the spirit motivating the Conservative Party and the upper echelons of our society currently. Johnson, who is of course the Mayor of London and who comes from a privileged background with lineages extending back to British royalty as well as to continental aristocrats, likes to project the rather eccentric image of an affable, well-meaning, and oftentimes inspired buffoon and ‘man of the people’,…