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                 Boris Johnson receiving a sizable advance from a publisher for a book about William Shakespeare but never writing it seems pretty fitting. Johnson's ascent and descent veers between cheap humor and absurdist theatre. It lacks tragedy's majesty entirely. The opening phrase of Mark Antony's elegy for Julius Caesar, "The evil that men commit lives after them," was the only Shakespearean quotation that sprang to me at the time of his political downfall. The coffin will be light enough if Johnson's good deeds from his public life are placed with his bones. But in the upcoming decades, wickedness will have a significant impact.   This is what makes Johnson's place in history so peculiar. It is difficult to imagine a person who is both foolish and significant, irresponsible and yet deeply important. His time in power was brief, but his bad effects of it will linger. He was a politician so lacking in ability that despite having a sizable legis

                 In an unprecedented display of global unity, hundreds of firefighters from around the EU have been dispatched to France to assist in putting out wildfires.   The majority of them are stationed along a 26-mile (40 km) active fire-front in the southwest, where a "monstrous" fire is still destroying pine forests.   Early on Friday morning, German firemen and their vehicles arrived to assist in putting out the enormous Landiras fire in the Gironde and the Landes, south of Bordeaux, which had rekindled this week after consuming vast tracts of forest in July.   Along with teams from Poland, Austria, Greece, and Italy, Romanian firemen and more than 1,100 French firefighters worked to put out the fire. As more than 360 firemen arrived in trucks and aircraft, President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: "Our partners are coming to France's help against the fires. They have my gratitude. The solidarity of Europe is at work!   France has experienced the