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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Latin scholar with a well-earned reputation for English wit, pulled out all the stops on the New York stage that is the United Nations’s annual meeting.
This is the setting where leaders can put on a show for a captive global audience. It’s where Libya’s one-time dictator Moammar Al Qaddafi once ripped up the UN charter and Israel’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a cartoon of Iran’s nuclear bomb. In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency, though, things have tended to be a little more staid.