Boris are you a man or a mouse?

In spite of his expectation of immunity through celebrity, Boris Johnson rages against being suspected of being a paedophile by a BA flight stewardess when sitting next to his children. All well enough Boris, but what strategic lesson or policy do you intend to draw from your spot hitting? The Times recently reported on the gender gap emerging in polls between men and women with the Conservative lead larger amongst women while neck and neck with the enemy amongst men. And here he is raging at the modern British man's lot of being a cipher for unfit parents, criminals, abusers and paedophiles. From underperforming at school through numbers of teachers, to suicide and cancer rates, life expectancy, domestic violence, prison population and mental illness to access to children after break ups the gender issue is ignored if you are a man – you are expected to just get on with it or you’re a wimp. Now men don’t want or need mollycoddling, positive discrimination or men only candidate lists, but the time has come that they need a voice and a champion. Boris, your instincts are right, are you man enough to follow them?