Hints and tips:
...And I said to him, you know, you could be Dominic Cummings sitting there. And he said, well, some of the things that Dominic Cummings says is sensible....
...Key to this is the testimony of the real man behind the myth, Brian MacKinnon, who now talks to camera but is never seen, his words lip-synced instead by Alan Cumming....
...Cumming, meanwhile, spent much of his childhood on the Panmure estate in Carnoustie, where his father, a violent bully who terrorised his children, worked as head forester....
...Westminster is alive with rumours that Sunak is the “puppet” of Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s aide-turned-nemesis, who helped to install him as chancellor....
...And the intricacy with which Khan Din draws the relationship between George and Ella demonstrates the agonising personal pressures created by prejudice: George is a domestic bully, but Jayawardena helps...
...I mean, he’s not literally gonna be hiding away in a shed in County Durham like Dominic Cummings, but I think he’s gonna be focused much more on these kind of deeper issues....
...George Freeman, a former minister, wrote on Twitter: “This week has seen an outburst of the worst of Westminster’s bully-boy spin, misogyny & poisonous leaking & briefing.”...
...Here, Carraway is already “a watcher”, “a listener”, and the Paris sections of his story are dazzling, complete with a sordid love affair with Ella, another lost soul....
...of environmental policies reflects something of the political journey Mr Johnson has travelled since the early 2000s when, as editor of The Spectator magazine, he published covers attacking “big green bullies...
...Mr Trump called Cummings “a brutal bully” and his largely African-American district a “rat and rodent-infested mess”....
...But the bullies failed to realise that others could refuse to play their game....
...The peril of seeing bullies and cheats prosper in high office is that social norms are undermined. Everyone’s behaviour may slip as a result....
...Hours after Mr Pompeo accused Democratic-controlled congressional committees of trying to “bully” state department officials, Steve Linick, the state department inspector-general, requested an urgent meeting...
...Third, the ability to pass laws and command parliament, and finally the power of the bully pulpit — which even prime ministers with big majorities find they need....
...Mr Johnson lost by 328 to 301, a serious setback for a prime minister who tried to bully MPs into backing him....
...But Dominic Cummings, Vote Leave’s campaign director, complained that Sir Andrew’s letter contained “errors and omissions” and was “highly misleading” in a number of respects....
...He cites Ella Hickson’s new play Boys (premiering at HighTide but only open to critics when it transfers to London’s Soho Theatre at the end of May): “It’s asking ‘where are the jobs now?...
...That is precisely where Dominic Cummings, the special adviser to Michael Gove, the education secretary, has found himself this week following the FT’s disclosures about the use of private email accounts...
...As I punched I suddenly remembered that when I was a child and having difficulties with bullies at school my mother rather eccentrically advised me to wallop them....
...Behind his defences he might have been a bully or a thoroughly decent man. I had no way of knowing: the face he presented to me was a perfect blank....
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