Boris Johnson is an idiot to be have backtracked. Nonetheless, he can backtrack again. But first vote for him. Make him Mayor of London (not Lord Mayor, yes, that's a different thing).

And even though Lord Mayor is a different thing, I am given to understand, from Mayor, of London, then there will be plenty of time to tell the elected Boris Johnson to "turn again, Boris Johnson, Lord Mayor of London."

Johnson is hardly ideal. He's flighty. But he'll have to do. Ignorant armies all over the Western world are clashing by day and night. The hapless citizens must choose the slightly less ignorant, the slightly more hopeful, the ones who "show potential." It's all we can do.

And the words Boris Johnson wrote about Islam a few years ago were then exactly right. Possibly he can be made to sit still long enough to commit them to memory, and then to make them the object of his own renewed study. and to discover, to his delight, that they do not date. Let him be re-acquainted and re-impressed, with his own previous self.

And let Redken return to his shampoos of yore.

(based on a comment made at dhimmiwatch)