Interesting letter about Boris Johnson:

Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for the next half). I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.

Martin Hammond, Eton College
Letter to Boris Johnson’s father
10th April 1982

The child is father to the man.