Excellent opinion piece. Might interest you

"The most dangerous attitude toward truth is contempt for its importance. The most dangerous use of language is one that strips it of meaning. The most dangerous approach to the past is the attempt to mythologize it."

Trump, Johnson and the Hole in the Doughnut

Will two charlatans and narcissists with hollow centers lead the free world?

LONDON — During the Vietnam War the American ambassador in Saigon, Frederick Nolting Jr., indignant at negative coverage, demanded of the French journalist François Sully, “Why, Monsieur Sully, do you always see the hole in the doughnut?”

“Because, Monsieur l’Ambassadeur,” Sully replied, “there is a hole in the doughnut.”

Speaking of doughnuts, Boris Johnson may well become the British prime minister this month. The United States and Britain would then be led by men with striking similarities, and not just on the hair front: two charlatans and narcissists with flimsy notions of the truth, utterly unprincipled, given to racist slurs, skilled practitioners of the politics of spectacle, manipulators of fear, nationalist traffickers in an imaginary past of radiant greatness, fabulists of reborn glory, with giant holes at their centers where conscience and integrity went missing.

So much for the leadership of the free world!

Link https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/opinion/boris-johnson-donald-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR2sqhNKURugDRAmTfuhgC0Bmdg0bgApHcB8lgB82PbMzCQrI6cv9lOp9Rs