Lies, Lies, Lies

Or, a tale of two alphas.

In a recent Substack blog, Dominic Cummings wrote of Boris Johnson:

He rewrites reality in his mind afresh according to the moment’s demands. He lies – so blatantly, so naturally, so regularly – that there is no real distinction possible with him, as there is with normal people, between truth and lies. He always tells people what they want to hear and he…