I have found something good to say about the prospect of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. A Prime Minister with a Classics degree would be the most glorious two-fingered salute to Tony Blair and to the ghost of Margaret Thatcher.
For 40 years, we have been told that an education system stripped of anything that was not "useful" to "business" would sort the wheat from the chaff, with the chaff by definition deserving of the good kicking that the State has then been more happy to deliver, seeing itself as morally obliged to do so.
Everything about Johnson is a standing contradiction of all of that. He is going to be a very bad Prime Minister, although probably not for very long. But there is at least this.
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