STEPHEN GLOVER: Why isn’t there outrage about Boris’s own Lavender List of Lords?
The Roman Emperor Caligula reputedly planned to appoint his horse a Consul. As Prime Minister, Robert Salisbury made his nephew Arthur Balfour Chief Secretary of Ireland in 1887. Hence, some say, the phrase ‘Bob’s your uncle’. I wonder whether a phrase will enter the language as a result of Boris Johnson doling out a life … Read more