ROGER KIMBALL ON THE JOYS OF INDEPENDENCE DAY IN LONDON: “Dr Johnson, who was right about so many things, was certainly about London: when a man is tired of London, he said, he is tired of life.” Plus a look at what’s coming in the next few weeks:

Mrs May will be history in a couple of weeks and tout le monde is wondering what, or rather who, comes next. The chief, indeed the only contenders at this point are Jeremy Hunt, Mrs May’s foreign secretary, and the polymathic moppet Boris Johnson, the journalist, former mayor of London, and Mr Hunt’s predecessor as Mrs May’s foreign secretary. Nine out of 10 people say that Boris will be the next prime minister. I think they are right, and I rejoice, since I think that Boris will be a breath of fresh air and that he will, as promised, deliver Britain from its soft servitude to the EU by October 31 of this year.

Fairness requires that I acknowledge that approximately every 10th person loathes Boris Johnson and believes — or at least hopes — that he will somehow come a cropper before the vote later this month. One wretched neighbor recorded a row between Boris and his girlfriend, sent the audio to the Guardian, and sat back in smug self-satisfaction when the story became a sensation.

Alas for them, the sensation was as evanescent as a bad odor on a windy day and now, on July 4, it seems almost certain that Boris will prevail.

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