Dot Wordsworth

Turd

issue 14 July 2018

I have never lost my admiration for Boris Johnson’s summary of British ambitions over Brexit as ‘having our cake and eating it’. It taught a generation of EU bureaucrats an important English idiom.

So it is with renewed admiration, if involuntary distaste, that I regard his success in reintroducing turd into polite conversation.

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