I’m not completely sure this warrants an entire blog entry, but, watching the BBC news just now, I noticed a fairly minor detail which I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to. It was just a fleeting shot, but very telling about the news story being covered. Of course, we all know about Partygate and how the shit is really about to hit the fan for Boris Johnson (or it should be). How he has the gall to somehow maintain that he didn’t knowingly or intentionally mislead parliament is beyond belief. In the shot which caught my eye just now, there were clearly a load of press outside a Tory or government office in central London. The short clip showed Johnson getting out of the back seat of quite a smart looking car dressed in shorts and beanie hat and immediately springing into a jog. He then pretended to jog the short distance from the car to the office, clearly wanting to appear as if he had jogged all the way there from his home.

If this doesn’t tell us all we need to know about Boris Johnson, then I don’t know what will. It was only a brief, fleeting shot, not picked up upon by the news reporter, but I think it is very telling. How superficial does anyone have to be to make such a pretence? Johnson is a man of extreme privilege — hence the chauffeur-driven car – but he is so eager to look like a normal, everyday bloke that he starts to put on an act as soon as he gets out, hoping nobody notices. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so perverse and insulting.

As I said, this is only a small detail amid much graver, pressing issues, yet one I wanted to make sure was noted. Such details tell us so much about Boris Johnson and the kind of people currently running the country. I’m sure I won’t be the only person who noticed it, but it’s only by noting such details that we see people like Johnson for the cynical charlatans they really are.