Remember this the next time the Mayor of London is doing his affable nincompoop routine – it’s all an act:
“As a general tactic in life, it is often useful to give the slight impression that you are deliberately pretending not to know what’s going on – because the reality may be that you don’t know what’s going on, but people won’t be able to tell the difference.”


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