Boris Johnson, from Miami to Ukraine; from Shakespeare to Churchill

LondonThe former prime minister Boris Johnson, 62, spends a week a month in South Florida as a visiting professor of political science at the University of Miami, an activity as lucrative as it is comfortable: little preparation, captive audiences, and the opportunity to present himself as the man ingenious that he has always cultivated. It is one of his very enriching businesses since was ousted from Downing Streetfour years ago.Since then, Johnson has lived, above all, on the conferences he gives around the world and on writing columns without editors to control him. Between 2022 and 2024, he billed around six million euros for these activities, according to the Financial Times and the agency that represents him, Harry Walker. To this must be added the copyright of his memoirs (his memoirs (2.4 million) and the annual allowance of up to 135,000 euros as former prime minister. His estimated net worth is between 18 and 24 million euros.

He is the father of four children from his marriage to Carrie Symonds and another six from previous partners. His future no longer lies in politics. He is writing an endless book about Shakespeare for which he was paid 580,000 euros in 2015 and which he has not yet published, but of which he says he mixes the celebration of "the most famous British person of all time" with reflections on power, fratricide, jealousy or political corruption. Shakespeare, Churchill, and Johnson: the triangle with which he explains himself and the country. The icing on the cake is the documentary that Channel 5 has just released: Boris Johnson: Into Ukraine’s Kill Zone, an exercise in shameful narcissism that has earned him brutal criticism in the United Kingdom. Johnson, wearing a balaclava, acting as a pub comrade with the soldiers risking their lives.