";s:4:"text";s:1803:" On the road to Mandalay”. Boris Johnson: Blond Ambition is on Channel 4 on Sunday at 10.05pm. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office declined to comment. Oct 1, 2017, 5:00 am SGT. Boris Johnson's Mandalay poem recital hogs headlines. Permalink: Copy.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been caught on camera appearing to part-recite a colonial poem in a Burmese temple before being stopped by an ambassador. Share Tweet Linkedin Pin Google+ Reddit Print Purchase Article. 'MANDALAY' BY RUDYARD KIPLING Boris Johnson: Blond …
The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India.The protagonist is a Cockney working-class soldier, back in grey restrictive London, recalling the time he felt free and had a Burmese girlfriend, now unattainably far away. "Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892. On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay! Six Reasons Why Boris Johnson Should Never Be Prime Minister Johnson's entire working life has been characterised by career and ego coming before ethics, decency or the good of the country
Burma – now officially known as Myanmar - was a British empire colony between 1824–1948. More.