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Boris Johnson essentially made his career at the Telegraph writing these. Brussels Correspondent was a pretty lowly role before he arrived. The condoms, the manure smelling, the bendy bananas, ‘Mumbai’ mix - all him.

“[I] was sort of chucking these rocks over the garden wall and I listened to this amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over in England as everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive ­effect on the Tory party – and it really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of power,”

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/07/boris-johns...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/boris-johns...




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