…Then As Farce

This week, some thoughts on Boris Johnson’s tragic flaw. Also: where were the major cities of medieval England, and a map of the Domesday Book.

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A tweet I keep thinking about, courtesy of the i newspaper’s head of digital Luke Bailey: “If you’d told me 5 years ago that one day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson would have been brought down by…