Unpopulism, Boris Johnson and a defence of the negroni

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Boris Johnson’s latest column in the Daily Mail is a defence of his friend Donald Trump. According to the former Prime Minister, a second Trump presidency could be just what the world needs. Putting to one side the reality that no, it really isn’t just what the world needs for a host of reasons that should be apparent to anyone with access to a television, the internet and a brain, Johnson’s column contained an egregious sideswipe at one of the greatest cocktails known to man.

“In the cocktail parties of Davos,” writes Johnson, “I am told, the global wokerati have been trembling so violently that you could hear the ice tinkling in their negronis.”