A series about Marco Polo is just the latest venture for the man with a shameful pastPotential guides to Marco Polo, the 13th-century explorer, must be thin on the ground. Are there, in fact, any out there who’ve never been described as “handsy”? And, for preference, never broken their partner’s nose? An attractive on-screen personality being, like the ability to comply with Covid regulations and to not insult the public, an advantage, but by no means essential.
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Asking only because a week after three
Women identified him as a specialist in unwanted touching, the – to give him his full title – father of the prime minister, was announced as the presenter for a forthcoming documentary series about Marco Polo’s route through
China. By way of qualifications: Stanley Johnson once, it’s understood, went quite near there as a student.