
Londoner's Diary
The Plot, Nadine Dorries’s cryptic exposé about the downfall of Boris Johnson, has been variously described as “a conspiratorial mess”, “a pyramid of piffle” and “the weirdest book I’ve ever read”. Yet its central claim — that a shadowy cabal, led by a rabbit-murdering puppetmaster called Dr No, brought down Boris Johnson and has been controlling British politics for decades — hasn’t been dismissed out of hand by everybody.