• Boris tests positive:

    If you don't know the story already google: Pericles.

    The wiki entry does not make it immediately clear that the Athenian plague was at least partly due to Pericles' own policies.

    As a classicist Boris will know about this and probably, in the past, would have wished to be compared with him (P. was a great orator)

    However, he will also have known P's fate, which may be why Boris has been looking a bit uncomfortable recently.

  • It is necessary to be rude about most politicians.

    But the Pericles story is not offensive -it is an informative comparison.

    It has been said that although history doesn't repeat itself, it does rhyme.

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