Uploaded to the Pornhub: ‘Dumb British blonde fucked 15 million people at once.’ That dumb blond is, of course, Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and current Member of Parliament (MP). He is also at the center of the successful exit movement and could be Britian’s next prime minister. In fact, this whole bad business might very well be (at least for him) nothing but a raw power move toward that office. The absence of principles or a soul in this politician is so pronounced it’s theatrical or novelistic, in the 19th century sense.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...