Boris Johnson & The Importance Of Not Being Earnest

London’s Daily Telegraph (known with varying degrees of affection as the Torygraph for its unswerving devotion to Britain’s Conservative & Unionist Party) ran a story on 5 August (the online link is from 7/8; I cannot compare it to the earlier print version) in which they offered deep insight to the new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson’s, wonder years at Oxford. The scoop was that, in 1986, Johnson went on an Oxford Union debating beano to the USA, and that in his team of four was also the incoming head of the NHS, Simon Stevens. Given that fears over his handling of the…