Today’s #podcast explores the saga of how a prominent Western democracy found itself headed by a buffoon with bizarre yellow hair, a morally bankrupt lifestyle, a reputation for chaos, and such an ability to escape consequences for his many screwups that nicknames for him included the word “teflon”. He was also given to schoolyard insults: crude epithets such as “arrogant self-aggrandizing swankpot epiphyte” and “sniveling disloyal invertebrate”.

No, not that guy. The other guy.

British Scandal delves into the life and times of Boris Johnson. It’s a ride.