14 of the 9 [ ] 9 * * 6 in the 5 * [ 5 kind of 5 * Opinion 5 The Guardian 4 a familiar 4 and a 4 of a 4 some kind 4 * The 4 to be 4 under the 3 about the 3 app * 3 Brexit trade 3 came the 3 deal, and 3 * Digital 3 edition * 3 exterior, the 3 familiar idea 3 from the 3 * Guardian 3 Guardian view 3 is some 3 is the 3 John Harris 3 minister is 3 of swashbuckling 3 on the 3 Opinion * 3 Opinion videos 3 part of 3 prime minister 3 * Search 3 Search jobs 3 seemed to 3 shambling exterior, 3 that under 3 the Brexit 3 the prime 3 the shambling 3 trade deal, 3 us * 2 ] * 2 (0) Sign 2 27 Dec 2 account to 2 * All 2 and its 2 and the 2 Archive * 2 Back to 2 belief that 2 be reaching 2 Boris Johnson 2 Boris Johnson’s 2 But in 2 by Le 2 by the 2 * Cartoons 2 Cartoons * 2 class, and 2 * Columnists 2 Columnists * 2 comments (0) 2 create your 2 crisis after 2 * Culture 2 Culture * 2 David Cameron 2 Dec 2020 2 Digital Archive 2 Downing Street 2 entitlement and 2 fact that 2 + Football 2 Football + 2 Fowles/No10 Downing 2 genius.’ Photograph: 2 Guardian account 2 Guardian Puzzles 2 harder to 2 have been 2 he was 2 * Holidays 2 Holidays * 2 idea returned, 2 in or 2 International edition 2 into the 2 is a 2 jobs * 2 join the 2 * Letters 2 Letters * 2 * Lifestyle 2 mixture of 2 news + 2 * News 2 News * 2 * Newsletters 2 Newsletters * 2 or create 2 Photograph: Pippa 2 Pippa Fowles/No10 2 policy * 2 Puzzles app 2 returned, that 2 run of 2 sense of 2 Sign in 2 some of 2 * Sport 2 Sport * 2 Sun 27 2 swashbuckling genius.’ 2 that this 2 the discussion. 2 the English 2 the fact 2 the greatest 2 ‘Then came 2 they were 2 this country’s 2 This is 2 to join 2 videos * 2 view * 2 was a 2 will be 2 with a 2 with the 2 words are 2 your Guardian 2 you will 1 10 Downing 1 15.08 GMT 1 18.41 GMT 1 1920s and 1 1990. In 1 2005, even 1 2016 referendum 1 2020. [ 1 2020 15.08 1 2020 18.41 1 © 2021 1 2021 Guardian 1 2021 will 1 24 December 1 30s while 1 80th anniversary 1 – a 1 a big 1 about Brexit 1 about. Of 1 about our 1 a certain 1 a Conservative 1 a contribution 1 a cutting 1 a damned 1 a deep 1 a dull 1 * Advertise 1 Advertise with 1 affiliated companies. 1 after crisis 1 after crisis. 1 again made 1 again offer 1 a Guardian 1 a huge 1 al) has 1 all know 1 allow me 1 All rights 1 all sides 1 all subsequent 1 all the 1 all this 1 All topics 1 All writers 1 also fit 1 altogether wicked; 1 alumni of 1 amid stranded 1 a minister 1 among the 1 a much 1 an archetype 1 – and 1 and 30s 1 and as 1 and cold 1 and Covid 1 and curiously 1 and drawn 1 and draws 1 and Englishwoman, 1 and ever 1 and his 1 and lives 1 and mutual 1 and part 1 and power 1 and some 1 and status 1 and stuffed 1 and successively 1 and superficiality 1 and then 1 and unassailable 1 and uncertainty 1 and will 1 an efficient 1 an Etonian 1 an infallible 1 an MP’s 1 anniversary of 1 a no-deal 1 a normal 1 any change? 1 any scrutiny. 1 any sense 1 anything, it 1 a peak. 1 a portrait 1 a post-Thatcher 1 apparent distance 1 appeasement, he 1 archetype that 1 archive * 1 are a 1 a reckless 1 are in 1 are merely 1 are not 1 are plenty 1 are spoken 1 a return 1 are undoubtedly 1 are “unserious, 1 are what 1 arrival at 1 arrogance that 1 + Art 1 Art & 1 as a 1 a saga 1 as an 1 as chancers 1 a seemingly 1 a sense 1 a shamefully 1 a short 1 as I 1 a sickening 1 as long 1 as our 1 as party 1 as pertinent 1 as they 1 at least 1 a Tory 1 at the 1 * Australian 1 Australian edition 1 a way 1 awful climax. 1 - Back 1 back in 1 back on 1 back-scratching has 1 Back when 1 bad decisions 1 barriers to 1 battle of 1 battles of 1 be clear: 1 be damage 1 been a 1 been led 1 been lost 1 been rather 1 be expected 1 be for 1 before Christmas, 1 being compromised 1 being finished 1 be rushed 1 best writing 1 better, cover 1 big part 1 biographer, Sonia 1 Blair into 1 blunders this 1 blur into 1 book as 1 + Books 1 Books + 1 book, the 1 * Boris 1 * Brexit 1 Brexit * 1 Brexit and 1 Brexit now 1 Brexit, row 1 Brexit, the 1 Britain’s domestic 1 Britain’s experience 1 Britain’s ruling 1 British mess 1 buildup to 1 + Business 1 Business + 1 but a 1 but also 1 but stupidity, 1 but that 1 but the 1 But then 1 But what 1 but will 1 by Easter), 1 by journalists 1 by Margaret 1 by Sasha 1 by two 1 calling of 1 Cameron * 1 Cameron and 1 Cameron back 1 cap-doffing and 1 Carré, and 1 Carré died 1 Carré’s fondly 1 + Cartoons 1 Cartoons + 1 certain kind 1 chain of 1 chancers and 1 change? If 1 character, and 1 character flaws, 1 character George 1 characterisations of 1 charm cited 1 charm you 1 childish” – 1 Christmas and 1 Christmas, as 1 Christmas, dismay 1 Christmas presents 1 “chumocracy”. Oligarchy 1 circles of 1 circle), you 1 cited by 1 * Class 1 class has 1 + Classical 1 Classical + 1 Class issues 1 class-ridden country 1 class treachery 1 clear: the 1 Clegg’s virtual 1 climax. Of 1 close. Johnson’s 1 cold war 1 + Columnists 1 Columnists + 1 columnist Topics 1 Combined with 1 * comment 1 comment * 1 commerce rather 1 companies. All 1 * Complaints 1 Complaints & 1 compromised by 1 & conditions 1 conditions * 1 confess to 1 consensus politics, 1 Conservative party 1 * Conservatives 1 Conservatives * 1 Conservatives at 1 Conservatives have 1 * Contact 1 Contact us 1 content comments 1 continue to 1 contribution * 1 * Cookie 1 Cookie policy 1 * Coronavirus 1 + Coronavirus 1 Coronavirus * 1 Coronavirus + 1 & corrections 1 corrections * 1 country has 1 country’s efforts 1 country’s mixture 1 country under 1 cover his 1 Covid-19. Just 1 Covid have 1 cowardice, but 1 created crisis 1 creating crisis 1 + Cricket 1 Cricket + 1 crisis – 1 crisis. The 1 criticism and 1 * Crosswords 1 Crosswords * 1 culminated in 1 ] Culture 1 Culture + 1 culture of 1 Cummings, Nigel 1 curiously childish” 1 cutting summary 1 + Cycling 1 Cycling + 1 damage and 1 damned fool.” 1 * David 1 deal in 1 death toll 1 December 2020. 1 decisions, from 1 decisions on 1 deep well 1 deference. The 1 defined Britain’s 1 Democrats. But 1 deny the 1 depends on 1 described Swire’s 1 & design 1 design + 1 destruction of 1 development + 1 Diary of 1 died earlier 1 Digital newspaper 1 disasters, then, 1 disaster. Therein 1 disaster, to 1 disastrous foreign 1 discussion. * 1 discussion. comments 1 disdain for 1 disgraceful school 1 disguise his 1 dismay about 1 dissembler on 1 distance from 1 distinctions of 1 ditch we 1 doesn’t seem 1 doing the 1 doing things 1 domestic travails 1 Dominic Cummings, 1 do. Under 1 Downing Street, 1 downsides of 1 drawn to 1 draws on 1 driven by 1 dull belief 1 during the 1 duty, but 1 earlier this 1 early stages 1 Earth,” he 1 Easter), Orwell’s 1 economic effects 1 edition [ 1 edition The 1 educated Englishman 1 effects of 1 efficient or 1 efforts in 1 election as 1 elite entitlement 1 elite that 1 embodied by 1 embraced first 1 endless run 1 English elite 1 Englishman – 1 English national 1 Englishwoman, if 1 entitled, snobbish, 1 entitlement, superficiality 1 + Environment 1 Environment + 1 era of 1 escape. • 1 essay, The 1 essence of 1 et al) 1 Eton, but 1 Etonian himself 1 even if 1 even the 1 ever made, 1 ever shall 1 examined is 1 excerpt from 1 expected of 1 experience of 1 + F1 1 F1 + 1 * Facebook 1 Facebook * 1 familiar mixture 1 + Family 1 Family + 1 Farage, Jacob 1 far-off era 1 + Fashion 1 Fashion + 1 feelings from 1 fields of 1 + Film 1 Film + 1 find it 1 finished is 1 first postwar 1 & fitness 1 fitness + 1 fit the 1 flared up 1 flaws, which 1 focused on 1 fondly loved 1 + Food 1 Food + 1 fool.” The 1 for any 1 for as 1 for doing 1 foreign policies 1 for us 1 from reality 1 from The 1 from you 1 further proof 1 + Games 1 Games + 1 & garden 1 garden + 1 genius. This 1 George Orwell’s 1 George Smiley. 1 glib charm 1 glibly, disguise 1 + Global 1 Global development 1 GMT [ 1 GMT * 1 + Golf 1 Golf + 1 got in 1 govern, but 1 government and 1 greatest dissembler 1 greatest peacetime 1 grinds on. 1 grouse moors 1 Guardian - 1 Guardian * 1 Guardian app 1 Guardian columnist 1 Guardian News 1 Guardian Weekly 1 habit of 1 had overseen 1 hardened into 1 Harris Boris 1 Harris is 1 Harris John 1 has been 1 has created 1 has defined 1 has ever 1 has focused 1 has hardened 1 has recently 1 has resulted 1 has so 1 have a 1 have flared 1 have got 1 have led 1 have reverted 1 have stuck 1 have their 1 + Health 1 Health & 1 * Help 1 Help * 1 Here, too, 1 he said 1 he says. 1 he’s been 1 he seemed 1 he surely 1 hierarchies in 1 high death 1 himself he 1 his belief 1 his feelings 1 his shortcomings 1 his social 1 his stupid 1 history Britain’s 1 history teaches 1 history that 1 his tracks 1 his warmly 1 + Home 1 Home & 1 home Search 1 horrifically readable 1 https://www.theguardian.com/email/form/footer/today-uk * 1 huge part 1 Hugo, was 1 husband, Hugo, 1 idea returned 1 If history 1 IFRAME: https://www.theguardian.com/email/form/footer/today-uk 1 if the 1 if you 1 If your 1 impossibly opulent. 1 in 10 1 in 1990. 1 in 2005, 1 in a 1 in any 1 in appeasement, 1 incestuous and 1 included the 1 * Inequality 1 Inequality * 1 infallible instinct 1 in has 1 in history 1 inner circles 1 in place, 1 in probably 1 inSearch [ 1 * Inside 1 Inside the 1 inspirational essay, 1 * Instagram 1 Instagram * 1 instinct for 1 intact. Nobody 1 * International 1 in “the 1 In the 1 into a 1 into disaster. 1 into. The 1 Iraq disaster, 1 – is 1 is an 1 is further 1 is not 1 is now 1 is only 1 is rarely 1 issues * 1 issues Throughout 1 is surely 1 is that 1 is to 1 it harder 1 it is 1 its affiliated 1 its apparent 1 its habit 1 I watched 1 Jacob Rees-Mogg 1 jobs Back 1 jobs Sign 1 • John 1 John le 1 Johnson * 1 Johnson deny 1 (Johnson, Dominic 1 Johnson government 1 Johnson in 1 Johnson’s arrival 1 Johnson’s biographer, 1 Johnson’s character 1 Johnson’s run 1 Johnson, the 1 journalists was 1 – just 1 Just before 1 just like 1 just starting: 1 Just to 1 keep even 1 knew what 1 know what 1 ] Last 1 Last modified 1 late, some 1 leader of 1 leadership by 1 leadership have 1 least in 1 least partly 1 le Carré 1 Le Carré, 1 Le Carré’s 1 led into. 1 led to 1 led Tony 1 less examined 1 less romantic 1 + Letters 1 Letters OpinionClass 1 Liberal Democrats. 1 lies a 1 ] Lifestyle 1 Lifestyle + 1 Lifestyle IFRAME: 1 Lifestyle ShowMoreShow 1 like now 1 like them 1 like up 1 Limited or 1 * LinkedIn 1 LinkedIn * 1 Lion and 1 lives that 1 London, 24 1 long as 1 longer story 1 longstanding ruling 1 looks like 1 lorries, a 1 lost there,” 1 + Love 1 Love & 1 loved character 1 made, has 1 made perfect 1 main, this 1 * Make 1 Make a 1 malign as 1 many of 1 Margaret Thatcher, 1 mark the 1 me – 1 & Media 1 Media Limited 1 memoir, Diary 1 + Men 1 Men + 1 merely unteachable.” 1 meritocracy most 1 messianic arrogance 1 mess that 1 mess we 1 middle from 1 minister under 1 mission or 1 (modern) 1 modern world. 1 modified on 1 + Money 1 Money * 1 month, among 1 moors of 1 More * 1 more rooted 1 more skilfully 1 most class-ridden 1 most people 1 most rotten 1 most spectacularly 1 mount up, 1 MP’s Wife 1 much longer 1 + Music 1 Music + 1 mutual back-scratching 1 national character, 1 national tragedy 1 ] News 1 News & 1 News + 1 newspaper archive 1 Nick Clegg’s 1 Nigel Farage, 1 nightmare of 1 Nobody will 1 no-deal Brexit, 1 normal Christmas 1 normality (this 1 – not 1 not altogether 1 not least 1 not out 1 not treachery, 1 not wicked, 1 novelist John 1 now and 1 now as 1 now being 1 now John 1 + Obituaries 1 Obituaries * 1 Observer * 1 – obsessed 1 obsessed with 1 of all 1 of an 1 of any 1 of awful 1 of bad 1 of Brexit, 1 of cap-doffing 1 of characterisations 1 of Covid-19. 1 of creating 1 of David 1 of deference. 1 of doing 1 of elite 1 of entitlement 1 of entitlement, 1 of Eton, 1 offer the 1 of George 1 of his 1 Of late, 1 of mission 1 of old 1 of people 1 of politics, 1 of private 1 of privileged 1 of stupidities 1 of taste 1 of terrible 1 Of the 1 of them 1 of Tory 1 of upper 1 of Waterloo 1 of what 1 old than 1 Oligarchy is 1 on a 1 on all 1 on Boris 1 on Brexit 1 once again 1 on Earth,” 1 on his 1 only just 1 only trade 1 on Sun 1 on. This 1 opening battles 1 ] Opinion 1 + Opinion 1 Opinion + 1 OpinionClass issues 1 opulent. We 1 or duty, 1 or find 1 or its 1 or not 1 or physical 1 or sensible 1 Orwell, and 1 Orwell’s inspirational 1 Orwell’s words 1 our disgraceful 1 our longstanding 1 out of 1 overseen Britain’s 1 pandemic and 1 pandemic, the 1 paper * 1 parliament with 1 partly understood 1 party leader 1 party whose 1 passages quoted 1 patriotic text 1 [p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=Class+issues%2CBori s+Johnson%2CPolitics%2CConservatives%2CCoronavirus%2CBrexit%2CInequalit 1 peacetime blunders 1 peak. But 1 people like 1 people who 1 people would 1 perfect sense. 1 pertinent now 1 physical cowardice, 1 * Pictures 1 Pictures * 1 Pilgrim, published 1 place, and 1 playing fields 1 plenty of 1 * Podcasts 1 Podcasts * 1 policies that 1 politicians who 1 politics and 1 politics, from 1 politics have 1 politics, then 1 populist meritocracy 1 portrait of 1 post-Thatcher view 1 postwar consensus 1 power not 1 presents included 1 press – 1 * Privacy 1 Privacy policy 1 privately educated 1 private schools 1 privileged leadership 1 privilege tends 1 probably the 1 “Probably the 1 project driven 1 promise of 1 proof of 1 prospect of 1 public schoolboys 1 published in 1 Purnell, described 1 pursuing the 1 pushed us 1 puts up 1 quoted by 1 & radio 1 radio + 1 rarely an 1 rather less 1 rather than 1 reaching a 1 reaching some 1 readable memoir, 1 reality is 1 reality seemed 1 recently seemed 1 + Recipes 1 Recipes + 1 reckless project 1 Rees-Mogg et 1 referendum to 1 remains intact. 1 removing them, 1 reserved. (modern) 1 resident in 1 resulted in 1 result in 1 result will 1 returned – 1 return to 1 * Reuse 1 Reuse this 1 reverted to 1 revived a 1 rights reserved. 1 rightwing press 1 romantic time 1 rooted on 1 roots in 1 rotten hierarchies 1 row back 1 + Rugby 1 Rugby union 1 ruling class 1 ruling class, 1 ruling-class politicians 1 rushed through 1 sabotage, an 1 saga grinds 1 saga of 1 said this: 1 same culture 1 Sasha Swire 1 says. “Was, 1 schoolboys has 1 schools (Johnson, 1 school system 1 + Science 1 Science + 1 scrutiny. Combined 1 Search UK 1 second world 1 Secret Pilgrim, 1 * SecureDrop 1 SecureDrop * 1 seem as 1 seemingly endless 1 seem to 1 seem unable 1 sense. Since 1 sensible way 1 separate the 1 & sex 1 sex + 1 shall be 1 shamefully high 1 shirts. But 1 shortcomings blur 1 short excerpt 1 ShowMoreShow More 1 sickening disdain 1 sides of 1 Sign inSearch 1 Since the 1 s+Johnson%2CPolitics%2CConservatives%2CCoronavirus%2CBrexit%2CInequalit y%2CDavid+Cameron] 1 skilfully or 1 Smiley. “The 1 snobbish, incestuous 1 so-called “chumocracy”. 1 social circle), 1 so glibly, 1 Sonia Purnell, 1 so pushed 1 spectacularly embodied 1 spoken by 1 ] Sport 1 Sport + 1 sports * 1 + Stage 1 Stage * 1 stages of 1 starting: all 1 status that 1 still resident 1 story about 1 story. If 1 stranded lorries, 1 Street, London, 1 Street Sun 1 Street ‘Then 1 stuck with 1 stuffed shirts. 1 stupidities that 1 stupidity, unconscious 1 stupid promise 1 * Subscribe 1 Subscribe * 1 subsequent wars 1 subterfuge, but 1 subtle distinctions 1 successively embraced 1 such criticism 1 such things 1 suggest, by 1 summary of 1 sun”. Here, 1 superficiality and 1 superficiality Boris 1 surely knew 1 surely that 1 swashbuckling genius. 1 Swire’s book 1 Swire (whose 1 system remains 1 tale. But 1 talk about 1 talking about. 1 taste and 1 teaches us 1 + Tech 1 Tech + 1 tends to 1 + Tennis 1 Tennis + 1 * Terms 1 Terms & 1 terrible decisions, 1 text about 1 than in 1 than removing 1 – that 1 that a 1 that, amid 1 Thatcher, they 1 that culminated 1 that depends 1 that doesn’t 1 that has 1 that he 1 that he’s 1 that his 1 that is 1 that led 1 that most 1 that puts 1 that seem 1 that separate 1 that such 1 that we 1 + The 1 the 1920s 1 the 2016 1 the 80th 1 the alumni 1 the battle 1 the best 1 the book, 1 the buildup 1 the calling 1 the chain 1 the Conservatives 1 The disasters, 1 the disastrous 1 the ditch 1 the downsides 1 the early 1 the economic 1 the election 1 the essence 1 the far-off 1 the glib 1 the grouse 1 the Guardian 1 the horrifically 1 the inner 1 the Iraq 1 their roots 1 the Johnson 1 the less 1 the Liberal 1 The Lion 1 the main, 1 them, and 1 them do. 1 the mess 1 the messianic 1 the middle 1 them is 1 the modern 1 “the most 1 the most 1 ] ‘Then 1 the national 1 then came 1 the nightmare 1 the novelist 1 then. “Probably 1 then the 1 then, will 1 then yet 1 The Observer 1 the only 1 the opening 1 the pandemic 1 the pandemic, 1 the passages 1 the playing 1 the populist 1 “The privately 1 the prospect 1 The reality 1 there are 1 Therein lies 1 the result 1 there,” wrote 1 the rightwing 1 the ruling-class 1 the saga 1 the same 1 the second 1 The Secret 1 the so-called 1 the subtle 1 the sun”. 1 the tale. 1 the talk 1 the top 1 the Unicorn, 1 the upper 1 the very 1 the way. 1 the words 1 The words 1 the world, 1 the wrong 1 they are 1 They are 1 The year 1 they result 1 things are 1 things have 1 things more 1 thing. They 1 think impossibly 1 this content 1 this country 1 this is 1 this looks 1 this month, 1 (this time, 1 this: “What 1 those things 1 Throughout history 1 through parliament 1 time, he 1 time of 1 to – 1 to a 1 to Christmas, 1 to commerce 1 to confess 1 * Today's 1 Today's paper 1 to escape. 1 to govern, 1 to have 1 to home 1 to keep 1 toll and 1 to malign 1 to mount 1 to Nick 1 to normality 1 Tony Blair 1 too, there 1 top © 1 topics * 1 Topics * 1 to politics 1 top revived 1 Tory politics 1 Tory story. 1 to suggest, 1 to the 1 to top 1 to you 1 tracks more 1 trade deal 1 tragedy that, 1 travails during 1 + Travel 1 Travel + 1 treachery and 1 treachery, or 1 + TV 1 TV & 1 * Twitter 1 Twitter * 1 two public 1 * UK 1 + UK 1 UK edition 1 UK jobs 1 UK news 1 unable to 1 unassailable privilege 1 uncertainty that 1 unconscious sabotage, 1 under Cameron 1 Under Johnson, 1 understood such 1 undoubtedly a 1 Unicorn, his 1 union + 1 “unserious, entitled, 1 unteachable.” Back 1 up barriers 1 up, but 1 up close. 1 up on 1 upper class 1 upper class, 1 * US 1 + US 1 us anything, 1 US edition 1 us into 1 US sports 1 very British 1 * Video 1 Video * 1 videos + 1 view + 1 view of 1 virtual destruction 1 warmly patriotic 1 wars have 1 war subterfuge, 1 war were 1 “Was, is 1 was still 1 was talking 1 was won 1 watched Johnson 1 Waterloo was 1 way. Just 1 way of 1 way to 1 We all 1 we are 1 Weekly * 1 we have 1 well of 1 were being 1 were harder 1 were then. 1 we seem 1 what all 1 what has 1 what he 1 “What is 1 what people 1 what those 1 * When 1 when Conservatives 1 When the 1 which are 1 while pursuing 1 who are 1 who had 1 (whose husband, 1 whose leadership 1 wicked, or 1 wicked; they 1 Wife by 1 will allow 1 will charm 1 will continue 1 will have 1 will mark 1 will they 1 with us 1 + Women 1 Women + 1 won on 1 words once 1 * Work 1 Work for 1 + World 1 world. Johnson’s 1 world, many 1 World news 1 world war 1 would think 1 writers * 1 writing about 1 wrong thing. 1 wrote Orwell, 1 y%2CDavid+Cameron] International 1 year 2021 1 yet again 1 you better, 1 your Christmas 1 you so 1 you that 1 * YouTube 1 YouTube *