The perfect day for this Boris headline

Brian Micklethwait (London) · Humour · Media & Journalism · UK affairs

I recently had a clean-out of my home, and one of the things I chucked out was a small stack of recent and not-so-recent newspapers.

Before binning them I took photos of their front pages, because front page photos, I find, can often make very evocative souvenirs. Plus, unlike the actual newspapers, they don’t clutter up my home. (Just my hard disc.) I also often take photos of front pages when I am out and about in London. Maybe (although I promise nothing) I’ll do one of those “a year in newspaper headlines” postings, come the end of the year.

I haven’t gone through this latest clutch of front page photos properly yet. My camera always sees more than I do, until I really look at what I’ve got. But, I have already been smiling at this front page headline:

Someone’s having a laugh, right? I don’t think it’s just me.

And the date above the newspaper headline …:

… tells me that one of the someones having a laugh is the Evening Standard. Nice one, gentlemen.

Here, for those who care, is the story.

3 comments to The perfect day for this Boris headline

the Literate Platypus

July 21, 2015 at 7:19 am

Kinder, gentler rape 🙂
John Galt

July 21, 2015 at 10:17 am

I wonder if Boris is one of the Ashley Madison victims?
Phil B

July 21, 2015 at 9:15 pm

One of the finest examples of an oxymoron I’ve seen in a while. Moral Politics, eh? On a par with dry water.

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