Boris Johnson’s plan to bestow an honour on his father is a blow to those seeking to protect women from domestic violence
again exposed in the case of David Carrick and, indeed, from much of the media’s lingering regard for post-disgrace Stanley: domestic abuse remains one lethal epidemic society can live with. After Wahl finally disclosed what Bower calls “the family’s great secret”, broadcasters’ appetite for her persecutor’s fatuous condescension continued as inexplicably keen as it was before he was exposed. Given an honour, he might even be able to increase his fees.
Many responses to news that our leading nepotist plans more nepotism, ranked Stanley’s domestic violence, supposing it came up, among the lesser objections to Boris’s continued perversion of the honours system. Keir Starmer said it was “absolutely outrageous”. Why? “The idea of an ex-prime minister bestowing honours on his dad.” On, Fiona Bruce helpfully depicted the nose-breaking as a “one-off”. So far Sunak has offered only a pleasantry about father’s day cards.
Admittedly, the sheer range of awfulness associated with Stanley Johnson – from his zeal for population control and six children, unwanted touching, contempt for the public, China promotion and mask non-compliance, to a capacity for aggression Rachel Johnson called “muscular fatherhood” – complicates attempts to express just how overwhelmingly squalid and damaging would be his knighthood.
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