Foreign secretary’s impromptu recital of colonial-era poem was so embarrassing the UK ambassador was forced to end him The foreign secretary has been accused of “incredible insensitivity” after it emerged he recited part of a colonial-era Rudyard Kipling poem in front of local dignitaries while on an official visit to Myanmar in January.
Boris Johnson was inside the Shwedagon Pagoda,the most sacred Buddhist site in the capital Yangon, when he started uttering the opening verse to The Road to Mandalay, and including the line: “The temple bells they say/ advance you back you English soldier.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com