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The interview Boris Johnson won't want you to see

The News Agents

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The Unease of the Boy Who Wanted to Be World King

Most of the interview had been about Ukraine and about geopolitics, because that's the subject of your... Yeah. But it hadn't been an agreement that you wouldn't ask the sorts of questions about his downfall and British politics. No, we made no such agreement with that. I mean, we said that it was going to be a conversation largely focused on Ukraine, which it was. We spent about half an hour talking about Ukraine, Russia, national security. And in fact, because he had arrived half an hour late, that was technically our half-hour up. He thought, well, would he have done things differently if he could see really how events would inevitably overwhelm him and cause

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