Jacqueline Riding
@jacriding.bsky.social
Film/TV historian #MrTurner #Peterloo #Colette Books Editor The Art Newspaper Curator/Consultant Author #Jacobites #Peterloo #Hogarth (Sunday Times Art Book of the Year) #HardStreets Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London out 5 Feb 2026
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Johnson was one of those two a penny public schoolboys who memorise a bit of Greek and a chunk of Latin and recite it in the pub... sprinkled with some classical references... while everyone stands around and claps.
Not an original idea in his bone head.
Not even ersatz PG Wodehouse more PG Twits.
Not an original idea in his bone head.
Not even ersatz PG Wodehouse more PG Twits.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Johnson was one of those two a penny public schoolboys who memorise a bit of Greek and a chunk of Latin and recite it in the pub... sprinkled with some classical references... while everyone stands around and claps.
Not an original idea in his bone head.
Not even ersatz PG Wodehouse more PG Twits.
Not an original idea in his bone head.
Not even ersatz PG Wodehouse more PG Twits.
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Also bringing this piece of brilliance back for the biggest clown, Boris Johnson! 😂😂
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Also bringing this piece of brilliance back for the biggest clown, Boris Johnson! 😂😂
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And when will the Daily Express, Daily Mail & Daily Telegraph apologise to people for their continual promotion & endorsement of Boris Johnson which led to thousands of avoidable deaths?
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
And when will the Daily Express, Daily Mail & Daily Telegraph apologise to people for their continual promotion & endorsement of Boris Johnson which led to thousands of avoidable deaths?