Cronyism, donors, wily MPs: Johnson’s honours glorify all that is wrong with his party | Marina Hyde

Many of the people who have been prime minister in the past six years seem to have internalised the idea that we’re sleepwalking towards an apologetically British form of tinpot dictatorship. After all, each of them has spent a remarkable amount of their time in office saying out loud: “I really don’t think the public wants an election.”

Perhaps the arc of history is bending towards them being right. As discussed here previously, a…