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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: I used to work with Boris Johnson. Why does no one believe how fun he was?

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

Q. It was 10 p.m. by the time the canapés appeared and by then it was already too late. The well-oiled guests, including many old friends, were not drawn from the widest gene pool; many of the men had been to ‘school’ and there was a large Oxbridge contingent, of which I was one.

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