The word “lickspittle” is one of my favorites in the English language. It’s a derogatory medieval term first deployed in 1586 by a professor named John James Gryneus, who wrote of “flatterers which ...
Boris Johnson called Emmanuel Macron “Putin’s lickspittle” and demanded an “orgy of frog-bashing”, his former No 10 director of communications has claimed. Guto Harri said Mr Johnson ...
The interminable fuel queues which began last week have become, to Nigerians, another painful encounter with the one-year old ...
Boris Johnson dismissed Emmanuel Macron as “Putin’s lickspittle” after the French president criticised the then-prime minister’s response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, according to a ...
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Beginning with the drama involving Yahaya Bello, Nigeria has entered a full plumule of its season of migration to lies.
Their excuse for our lickspittle status is 'the special relationship' which is never defined. Geoffrey Johnson, (geoffj@career.u-net.com) GEOFFREY JOHNSON is a bit harsh on old Major's Marauders.
He, like most of us tracking Graham’s trajectory into lickspittle-dom, thought Graham was totally under Trump’s thumb. On abortion, though, Graham has taken a principled stand. He plans to ...
Collins was no doubt trying to annoy his dandified, monocle-sporting opponent by suggesting he was a lickspittle of the English, but the outburst was naive at best. (And given that Eubank was ...
it shouldn’t be a surprise that many from the most Republican of sports still lickspittle around him. No matter how extreme his political positions are getting. The right side of the green is ...
If government’s secret police still do their work effectively, let them compile the articulations of bilious hatred for ...