This arrant nonsense by Allison Pearson reminds me that In the 1930s German schoolchildren were made to say a daily prayer for the health of the Fuhrer.
It's not just Allison Pearson. Here's Toby Young gushing over Boris Johnson's "coiled strength" & "almost tangible will to power", which reminds him of Nietzsche's Ubermensch. What could possibly go wrong?

(HT @docrussjackson)
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