Boris Johnson is gravely ill with the Corona-virus. Few state leaders are as charismatic or as interesting as Boris Johnson. He embodies many of the old time virtues we Americans appreciate about the Brits. I remember reading some of my father’s letters home during ” the War” and his observations of the British. They weren’t exactly loquacious southerners and Dad was taken  a bit back by this, but he respected and liked them. They were stoic and shockingly blunt. They were also generous and nice. The UK and the US are joined at the hip. No other country shares our culture and institutional values like the Island Nation. Boris was actually born in New York, then Eton and Oxford educated. If Agatha Christie were to fabricate a British PM to be woven into one of her mysteries, she could not weave a more fascinating mosaic of threads and colors than Boris. All of which  are archetypally British. Pray for Boris.