In his highly entertaining biography of Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson observes that — “To some extent all politicians are gamblers with events. They try to anticipate what will happen, to put themselves on the right side of history.” Mr Johnson even interprets his hero’s decision to campaign against Hitler, early in the 1930s, in this cynical light, explaining that Churchill — “Put his shirt on a horse called anti-Nazism?.?.?.?and his bet came off in spectacular fashion”.
鮑里斯?約翰遜(Boris Johnson)在自己撰寫的關于溫斯頓?丘吉爾(Winston Churchill)的極富趣味性的傳記中指出:“從某種程度上講,所有政客都是見風使舵的賭徒。他們設法預測將要發生什么事,并讓自己站到歷史正確的一邊?!奔s翰遜甚至用一種嘲諷的語氣解釋丘吉爾在上世紀30年代反對希特勒(Hitler)的決定,他說,丘吉爾“把全部家當押在一匹被稱為反納粹主義的馬上……他的押注獲得了輝煌的成功”。